Company Dynamic

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

Azelis said that it has acquired Georges Walther AG, an independent family run company based in Switzerland.

• Azelis

SDK has started shipment of 2.5-inch hard disk (HD) media with storage capacity of 1 terabyte (TB) per disk, which features the world’s highest storage capacity for this size available on the market today.

• Showa Denko

Showa Denko New Material (Zhuhai) Co Ltd. (SDNZ), a consolidated subsidiary of Showa Denko K K (SDK) has completed its new plant to produce thermosetting bulk moulding compound (BMC) in Zhuhai, Guangdong Province, China.

• Showa Denko

Electric mobility and photovoltaics play a vital role in protecting the climate and conserving fossil resources.

• Covestro
• PPG

BASF SE said that it will build a new speciality amines plant at its present site in Nanjing Chemical Industry Park in China.

• BASF

LYB has introduced Moplen grade EP310J HP, a polypropylene (PP) resin offering improved sealing strength and produced using a non-phthalate based catalytic system to meet the growing global demand for food pouches.

• LyondellBasell

FLR said that its joint venture team has been awarded an engineering, procurement and construction contract for BHP’s Spence Growth Option project at the Spence open-cut copper mine in northern Chile.

• Fluor

HIG said that its affiliate has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Vantage Specialty Chemicals Holdings Inc from an affiliate of TJC, which will co-invest into the new deal through a minority equity stake.

• HIG

Deepak Fertilisers and Petrochemicals Corp Ltd (DFPCL) said that it plans to set up a brownfield isopropyl alcohol plant with high purity diisopropyl ether as co-product at its existing Tajola facility, Maharashtra.

• Fertilisers