Company Dynamic

Univar Inc (UNVR) said that its wholly owned subsidiary Univar Brasil Ltda has acquired the stock of Tagma Brasil Ltda (Tagma).

• Formulator
• Univar

The newly merged DowDuPont said Thursday it has started up its new ethylene and plastics plants in Freeport, making the nation's largest chemical giant the first to debut a major ethylene project along the Texas Gulf Coast.

• Dow
• DuPont
• Plastics

BASF has placed a cornerstone for its new waterborne production plant at the company’s manufacturing site in Tultitlan, Mexico. The new plant will provide sustainable solutions for the growing automotive market in Mexico.

• BASF
• Coating

Guardian Industries has approved the investment for an additional float and coated glass manufacturing plant in Czestochowa, Poland, to meet the growing demand for float, coated and fabricated glass products across Europe.

• Guardian

Agilent Technologies Inc (A) has introduced the newest member of its family of triple quadrupole liquid chromatography-mass spectrometers (triple quad LC/MS).

• Agilent

Royal DSM said that it is acquiring Twilmij BV (Twilmij), a well-established Dutch nutritional solutions company in the animal feed sector.

• DSM

FMC said that it has received approval from CCI for the proposed acquisition of a significant portion of DuPont's crop protection business.

• FMC
• CCI

Covestro AG said that it will be presenting itself as a key supplier of raw materials and partner to the medical technology sector.

• Covestro

Total SA (TOT) said that its subsidiary, Total E&P USA Inc (Total), has entered into an agreement to capture 7 prospects operated by Chevron USA Inc (Chevron) in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico (GoM). The agreement covers 16 blocks.

• Total

Brenntag AG has successfully placed a new €600 million corporate bond with institutional investors.

• Brenntag

BP today launched PTAir in China, a brand new certificated carbon neutral PTA brand that offers a more sustainable solution for the polyester value chain through a combination of world-class technology and carbon management expertise.

• PTA
• BP

Helen CF (Sanfangxiang) plans to shut a 1.2 million mt/yr PTA line for turnaround in Oct and the maintenance may probably last for 20 days.

• PTA

The Chinese authorities have frozen part of commodity trader Trafigura’s investment in a Chinese copper smelter as part of a years-long probe into the Swiss firm’s oil trading, according to documents from the police and banks reviewed by Reuters.

• China
• Trafigura

Western Energy Services Corp. said on Friday that it has tapped the Alberta Investment Management Corp. for a $215-million loan, marking the third time the fund manager has supported a Calgary-based service company since oil prices collapsed.

• Western Energy

The challenges of urbanization and climate change are driving a global transformation of green building to include new innovative, sophisticated and highly efficient building techniques, processes, materials and products.

• Green
• AkzoNobel

Velocys plc, a renewable fuels company has entered into a partnership to prepare the business case for a commercial scale waste-to-renewable-jet-fuel plant in the UK.

• Velocys

ExxonMobil Corporation said that its Baytown and Beaumont refineries have begun producing fuels at reduced rates.

• ExxonMobil

Clariant increases prices globally for all products containing titanium dioxide and/or carbon black pigments by between 5 percent-10 percent (depending on the grade, concentration and quality of the titanium dioxide (TiO2) and/or carbon black).

• Clariant

AkzoNobel NV and Volvo Ocean Race have partnered to create race boat experience and to explore a life-size replica of the competing Volvo Ocean 65 (VO65) yachts.

• AkzoNobel

Maroon Group LLC has acquired Seidler Chemical, a speciality chemicals and ingredients distributor based in Newark, New Jersey.

• Maroon