Company Dynamic

Unilever has taken a pioneering stance on its palm oil supply chain by being the first consumer goods company to publish in full a dossier of all the suppliers and mills that it sources from.

• Unilever

79 billion on the strength of 16 percent volume growth, led the "sustained rebound" in demand for the mining tires and a sharp upturn in...

• Michelin
• Tire

” AkzoNobel’s new coating systems offer numerous performance and sustainability benefits, such as the latest UV curing primer technology...

• AkzoNobel
• Coatings

Together with Yarn Expo Spring 2018, four other textile trade fairs are held concurrently during March 14-16: Intertextile Shanghai Appa...

• Yarn

Dow Chemical has lifted its force majeure on methyl di-p phenylene isocyanate (MDI) in the US, the company confirmed on Friday.

• MDI
• Dow

, Motiva’s Port Arthur refinery in Texas, which has a crude processing capacity of more than 600,000 bpd and is North America’s biggest ...

• Exxon
• Refinery
• U.S.

Lorin Debonte, assistant vice-president of R&D at Cargill said: “The partnership demonstrates our ongoing commitment to developing nutri...

• Cargill
• BioSciences

Commercial tires—leverage the company's expanding truck/bus tire position in North America and promote ultra-wide-base tires and continu...

• Yokohama
• Annual
• Tire

No representation or warranty (expressed or implied) is made as to, and no reliance should be placed on, any information, estimates, tar...

• LANXESS
• Dyes
• Capacity

Polypropylene (PP) prices in China’s domestic market may slow down their downtrend post-Lunar New Year as downstream demand is expected to pick up.

• Polypropylene

Global energy giants Shell and ExxonMobil welcome the Singapore government’s decision to impose a carbon tax to combat climate change, but with some reservations.

• Shell
• ExxonMobil

Chemlube will be the exclusive European distributor of Group III base oils from Abu Dhabi after signing a deal with producer ADNOC on Wednesday, the pair of firms revealed at a gala dinner hosted at the ICIS World Base Oils & Lubricants conference.

• ADNOC

US NGO the Institute for In Vitro Sciences (IIVS) and German chemical company BASF are working together to import an alternative skin sensitisation test into China.

• BASF
• IIVS

3M Co. has agreed to pay the state of Minnesota $850 million to settle a major case alleging the manufacturer damaged natural resources and contaminated groundwater by disposing of chemicals over decades, attorneys announced Tuesday.

• 3M

DSM’s Personal Care & Aroma Ingredients business unit, has announces that following audits at its Swiss production sites in Vouvry and Aesch, over half its personal care portfolio is now certified as halal.

• personal care

Unilever and Indonesian government-owned palm oil plantation company PT Perkebunan Nusantara (PTPN) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to work together in Indonesia.

• Unilever

ExxonMobil Chemical has started commissioning a new ethane cracker at its complex in Baytown, Texas, US as part of a multi-billion expansion that will dramatically boost its plastics production.

• ExxonMobil

BASF is expanding its alkyl polyglucosides (APG) production capacity at its sites in Cincinnati, Ohio (USA), and Jinshan, China.

• BASF

ICI Pakistan has expanded the capacity of its soda ash production plant by 75,000 tons per annum.

• Pakistan
• ICI
• Soda Ash

Japanese chemicals firm, Showa Denko (SDK), has announced a two-phase expansion of capacity for silicon carbide (SiC) epitaxial wafers for power devices, which are marketed under the trade name of ‘High-Grade Epi’ (HGE).

• SDK