Company Dynamic

BASF India Ltd said it has inaugurated a pharma technical lab at its innovation campus in Maharashtra.

• BASF
• Pharma

HSBC Holdings PLC on Monday said profit grew 5 percent in the six months through June and announced its third share buyback in a year, indicating continued progress in the six-year turnaround plan of Europe's biggest bank.

• HSBC

JK Tyre & Industries Ltd has launched 'Jagruti se Pragati', an innovative project which aims to bridge the communication gaps between farmers and agricultural experts, using modern digital technology.

• JK
• Tyre

A ship carrying 30,000 tons of diesel set off from the marine terminal of Sinopec Shanghai Petrochemical to Southeast Asia. This was the first time for Sinopec Shanghai Petrochemical to export diesel by the trade mode of general trade.

• Diesel
• Petrochemical

Shandong Dongfang Hualong Group was approved to refined imported crude oil with the volume of 3 million tons each year.

• Oil
• Refinery

Lanxess AG said that it has doubled its membrane capacities at Bitterfeld plant in Germany.

• Lanxess

Showa Denko K K (SDK) started to supply low-carbon hydrogen gas made from used plastics (low-carbon hydrogen) at its Kawasaki Plant to Tomoe Shokai Co Ltd in Koto-ku, Tokyo.

• SDK

Tosoh Corporation will be expanding its production capacity for high-silica zeolite (HSZ) at its Nanyo complex in Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan.

• Tosoh
• Zeolite

Polyplex Corporation announced on Tuesday that its subsidiary, Polyplex Public Company has decided to set up a greenfield PET film line project in Indonesia.

• Polyplex
• Indonesia

As the Indian markets make new records day after day, select stocks of automobile and auto ancillary companies have driven much ahead of the benchmark indices at a breakneck speed...

• Automobile

Balkrishna Industries board on Saturday has given their nod for setting up of a Carbon Black project at its Bhuj plant with an initial annual capacity of 60,000 MT’s at an estimated capital outlay of Rs 150 crore.

• Balkrishna
• Carbon
• Black

Monsanto Company and Atomwise, a biotechnology company have formed a unique research collaboration to increase the speed and probability of discovering and developing new crop protection products using artificial intelligence.

• Monsanto

Arkema announced a project to double its methyl mercaptan production capacity at its Kerteh site in Malaysia.

• Arkema

AGU, through its subsidiary Loveland Products Inc has closed on the acquisition of Starpharma Holdings Limited's agrochemical business for Australian dollar–A$35 million.

• Agrium

Royal Dutch Shell plc said that it has shut down Europe’s largest refinery in Rotterdam, the Netherlands after a fire at a high-voltage electricity switch station.

• Shell

Specialty chemicals group Clariant said it has hired Goldman Sachs as an additional advisor to help stave off an activist investor's campaign to derail its planned merger with U.S. peer Huntsman .

• Huntsman
• Clariant

Royal Dutch Shell Plc plans to cut more than 400 jobs in the Netherlands, mainly at its major projects and energy technology operations, as the oil giant shifts its business model in response to lower oil prices, according to an...

• Shell
• Dutch

BASF SE plans to establish a new group company, BASF 3D Printing Solutions GmbH, as of 1 September.

• BASF

The Philippines' environment minister Roy Cimatu said on Monday he would not lift a ban on open-pit mining imposed in April in an anti-pollution crackdown, as an inter-agency mining council reviews how miners are taxed in the Philippines.

• Philippines
• Ban

Lotte Chemical Titan Holding Berhad (LCT) has completed a mass production trial of Metallocene linear low-density polyethylene (mLLDPE), an important component in the production of plastic items such as industrial film, food packaging, and stretch...

• Lotte
• Thermoplastic