Company Dynamic

Students from the Eindhoven University of Technology taking part in the Bridgestone World Solar Challenge in Australia will be aiming to blaze a winning trail in a stunning new vehicle featuring high-performance coatings supplied by AkzoNobel NV.

• AkzoNobel

BASF Corp. Refinish Coatings received General Motors Global Refinish approval for its Glasurit and R-M paint brands. BASF hosted the GM Paint Engineering Team at its North American Coatings Headquarters in Southfield

• BASF
• Coating

Marchionne had a meeting with Mercedes motorsport boss Toto Wolff on the morning of the Hungarian Grand Prix, and one of the topics they discussed was the future of FE.

• Ferrari

Yangmei Chemical has recently achieved some qualified products at its 200kt/year coal-based MEG plant in Pingding, Shanxi province. The company is now commissioning the unit and is likely to raise operating rate after getting on-spec products.

• MEG
• Textile

CNOOC Zhongjie Petrochemical (Huayue Chemical) delayed restarting its aromatics plant in Hebei province to late August. The plant, which can produce 20kt/year of benzene

• Aromatics

Vietnam needs $22-billion investment by 2025 in the textile and dyeing sector to address capital shortage and to meet the demand for clothes and ancillary materials of outsourcing enterprises,

• Vietnam
• Textile

Toyobo Co Ltd and PT Trias Sentosa Tbk (Trias) have agreed to set up two joint venture firms to manufacture and sell Toyobo’s Ecosyar, a transparent vapor-deposited film, and polyester films for packaging in Indonesia.

• Toyobo

Fluor Corporation (FLR) has been awarded an engineering, procurement and construction management (EPCM) contract by Petronas Refinery and Petrochemical Corporation Sdn Bhd for an isononanol plant located in Pengerang, Malaysia.

• Fluor

IMCD NV has signed an exclusive agreement with Givaudan, to distribute the company’s flavours range in the food and nutrition markets across Germany, France, Italy, Spain, UK, Benelux and Nordics.

• IMCD

Amec Foster Wheeler has been awarded a lump sum contract, for the delivery of hydrogen plant technology and design and materials supply for a Terrace Wall steam reformer heater for Uzbekneftegaz National Holding Company’s OLTIN YO’L GTL plant.

• Amec

BioAmber Inc (BIOA) has commenced an underwritten public offering of its common stock, with each share of common stock to be sold together in a fixed combination with a warrant to purchase additional shares of common stock.

• BioAmber

PPG said that its coil and building products business has published the architectural powder coatings colour guide, a six-page brochure featuring 60 commonly specified Coraflon powder coatings colours.

• PPG
• Architectural

APD announced an agreement with TP JGC Coral France for the supply of its proprietary cryogenic coil wound heat exchanger technology and the liquefaction process license.

• Air Products

EuroChem Group AG has acquired Emerger Fertilizantes SA, a privately-owned distributor of premium and standard fertilisers in Argentina.

• EuroChem

SDK to acquire assets regarding the sublimation-recrystallization method to manufacture silicon carbide wafers, from Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corporation and Nippon Steel & Sumikin Materials Co Ltd.

• SDK

Huntsman Textile Effects, a publicly traded global manufacturer of differentiated chemicals, has announced that the company is helping make local communities more sustainable with new projects.

• Textile
• Huntsman

Praxair Inc (PX) said that it has expanded its Praxair skills pipeline workforce development program and will be working with Ivy Tech Community College in Indianapolis.

• Praxair

Nuberg has been awarded a contract by El Nasr Co for Intermediate Chemicals (NCIC) for technology, engineering and construction of hydrogen peroxide plant in Giza, Egypt.

• Nuberg

BioAmber Inc has entered into a definitive agreement to purchase Mitsui & Co Ltd's (Mitsui) entire minority equity position in the Sarnia manufacturing joint venture.

• BioAmber