Company Dynamic

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

Wacker Chemie AG said that it will present its new Elastosil R plus 4350/55 solid silicone rubber. An outstanding property of this extrudable and addition-curing silicone grade is its high resistance to heat.

• Wacker

W R Grace & Co (GRA) has contracted to license its UNIPOL PP process technology to Canada Kuwait Petrochemical Corporation (CKPC), a 50/50 joint venture between Pembina Pipeline Corporation (PBA) of Canada and Petrochemical Industries Company KSC of K

• Grace

AkzoNobel NV has finalised the first application agreement for bio-based polymers to result from its collaboration with Itaconix PLC.

• AkzoNobel

RPM International Inc (RPM) said that David Reif, III, formerly group president of the RPM performance coatings group, has been appointed president – RPM industrial segment.

• RPM

Linde Malaysia Sdn Bhd (Linde), a member of The Linde Group said that it will invest €30 million to expand its gas and liquid production capacities in central Malaysia.

• Linde
• Malaysia

Nielsen, leading global measurement and data analytics company, has announced a strategic cooperation agreement with Chinese e-commerce giant JD.com formalising the collaborative launch of a Multi-Touch Attribution (MTA) offering in China.

• Nielsen
• JD

Lindstrom India, a subsidiary of Lindstrom Group headquartered in Finland and India’s leading workwear service company has inaugurated a new production unit in Visakhapatnam.

• Lindstrom

Clariant (CLN) announced that its planned merger of equals with Huntsman Corporation (HUN) is on track, with key regulatory filings submitted for approval in US, EU and China.

• Clariant
• Huntsman

DuPont Advanced Materials has announced availability of its newest generation of stretchable electronic inks and films for smart clothing. The materials are being unveiled concurrently with a new brand identity

• DuPont
• Ink