Company Dynamic

3M Company has developed a “Find My Adhesive” product selector tool to help make medical adhesive selection a simpler process.

• 3M

Gevo reaffirms its focus on the commercial development of renewable jet fuel, renewable isooctane, isobutanol and related products.

• Gevo

Enterprise Products Partners LP (EPD) said that it plans to add 300 million cubic feet per day (MMcf/d) of incremental capacity at its cryogenic natural gas processing facility under construction near Orla, Texas in Reeves County.

• EPD

The Lubrizol Corporation has selected Simko SA as the new distributor for the thermoplastic polyurethane (TPU) portfolio of the company's engineered polymers business throughout Argentina.

• Lubrizol

Clariant International Ltd has been appointed Judith van Vliet, a designer at its ColorWorks design and technology centre in Merate, Italy, as president of the colour marketing group (CMG).

• Clariant

Reliance said that the complex – with a total 1.5m tonne/year capacity, along with downstream plants and utilities – is the world’s “first ever and largest” ROGC complex.

• Reliance

Anellotech completed the commissioning of its pilot plant in Texas, which it will use to further test its renewable aromatics technology, the company said on Thursday.

• Anellotech

ONEOK plans to build a pipeline from eastern Montana to Kansas that will ship natural gas liquids (NGLs), the US-based midstream company said on Thursday.

• ONEOK

Clariant said that it will increase the global price for selected pigments. The price increases, which come into effect for delivery as of 15th January 2018, will affect dioxazine violet and diarylide pigments

• Clariant

Sika AG has established its 100th national subsidiary in Bangladesh. Reaching a further milestone in the implementation of its growth strategy and is now represented in 100 different countries.

• Sika

AkzoNobel’s speciality chemicals business said that it is studying plans to expand production of high-purity vacuum salt at its Delfzijl site in Netherlands. The project would increase output at the facility by around 25 percent.

• AkzoNobel

BASF SE and Sinopec said that they will expand the production capacity of neopentyl glycol (NPG) at the state-of-the-art Verbund site, BASF-YPC Co Ltd, a 50-50 joint venture in Nanjing, China.

• BASF
• Sinopec

Nippon Paint Holdings Co. is shopping for large acquisitions, including in Europe, to expand outside Japan amid a global consolidation among the biggest coatings makers.

• Nippon

Eastman Chemical has mechanically completed repair work at its coal gasification plant in Kingsport, Tennessee and is now in the process of restarting the facility, the US chemical firm said in an update on Wednesday.

• Eastman

Samsung Engineering has been awarded a contract from Sabic’s manufacturing affiliate, Jubail United Petrochemical Company (United), for a $ 700 million ethylene oxide–ethylene glycol (EO/EG) plant in Saudi Arabia, to produce 700,000 MTPA MEG.

• Samsung

The former CEO of a Union City shipping company agreed to plead guilty to illegally transporting hazardous materials and to retain independent oversight, federal prosecutors announced last week.

• Toxic

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• Rules
• Investments

Nan Ya Plastics Corporation lowers the operating rate at its 360kt/year MEG unit in US due to unit issue.Jan contract supply is cancelled.

• MEG
• Taiwan Nanya

Jiaxing PC (Tongkun) started to test one line out of the phase II 2.1 million unit achieved on-spec products on Dec 26.

• Jiaxing
• PTA