Company Dynamic

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

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