Company Dynamic

An agreement has been signed with energy company Eneco which means the company’s facilities in Sassenheim, Wapenveld, Groot Ammers and Ammerzoden are now entirely using electricity generated by wind power.

• AkzoNobel
• Paint

LyondellBasell (NYSE: LYB), one of the largest plastics, chemicals and refining companies in the world, today announced the introduction of its new global brand and tagline, "LyondellBasell: Advancing Possible."

• LyondellBasell

Sinopec Shanghai Petrochemical plans to close its No. 1 225kt/year MEG plant around Oct 1 for about 7 days of turnaround.

• Petrochemical
• MEG

Royal Dutch Shell is opening the first Chinese office of its venture capital fund and recruiting three local investment staff there to tap a market where it sees "explosive" growth, the head of the business told Reuters on Thursda

• Shell
• China

Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC), India's biggest oil and gas producer has appointed Shashi Shanker as its chairman and managing director (CMD).

• ONGC

Trinseo (TSE) said that it opening its new research and development (R&D) site in Terneuzen, Netherlands, as part of its huge investment into the company’s future.

• Trinseo

Eastman have entered into a non-exclusive license agreement with Origin Materials , to license its proprietary 2,5-furandicarboxylic acid and FDCA derivatives production technology from renewable resources.

• Eastman

Cargill completes the acquisition of Southern States Cooperative, Inc’s animal feed business.

• Cargill

Valent USA LLC, a leading crop protection firm has launched the sustainable solutions business unit, a new division within the company.

• Valent

Westlake Chemical Partners LP (WLKP) has agreed to acquire an additional 5 percent interest in Westlake Chemical OpCo LP (OpCo) for approximately $229.2 million.

• Westlake

Honda Motorcycle and Scooter India (HMSI) on Tuesday announced that it has made the biggest and fastest network expansion in the history of Indian two-wheeler industry.

• Honda
• India

The UNO Minda Group is expanding its manufacturing capacity in the areas of lighting, airbags, alloy wheels, blow molding parts and four-wheeler switches in Gujarat.

• UNO
• Minda
• Gujarat
• Capacity

Fujian Xianglu resumed its 160kt/yr virgin PSF unit on Sep 25. The unit mainly produces 1.4D semi-dull virgin PSF and low-melting PSF.

• PSF

Cargill and Faccenda Foods have agreed to establish a joint venture to create a leading UK food company focused on chicken, turkey and duck.

• Cargill

Cargill said that it plans to build a state-of-the-art $90 million biodiesel plant in Wichita, Kansas.

• Cargill

Braskem has entered into a partnership with A Schulman Inc to produce and market a new green polyethylene application: a solution for the rotomolding process.

• Braskem

Biesterfeld Spezialchemie GmbH is set to complete the integration of distributor Schutz & Co (GmbH & Co KG) which it acquired in 2016.

• Biesterfeld

AGC Asahi Glass (AGC) has decided to increase its capacity at CMC Biologics, a 100 percent subsidiary of AGC.

• AGC

ExxonMobil Corporation said that it has enhanced A program to reduce methane emissions from its production and midstream facilities across US.

• ExxonMobil

Chicago Bridge & Iron Company (CB&I) said that the National Safety Council has elected Patrick Mullen, CB&I's president and CEO, to its board of directors.

• CB&I