Company Dynamic

Germany's Continental and Osram are planning to set up a joint venture to develop lighting products for the automotive industry, Wirtschaftswoche reported on Wednesday, citing unnamed sources.

• Continental

BASF SE and Kaiima Bio-Agritech, a genetics and breeding technology company, have collaborated for the discovery of novel herbicide resistance traits to develop new weed control systems to improve farmer productivity.

• BASF
• Herbicide

Hanbang has restarted half of the 2.2 million mt/yr PTA unit in Jiangyin and the other half will be restarted soon. In addition, Hanbang intends to restart the 700 kta PTA unit shut since Sep, 2016.

• PTA

Shanghai SECCO Petrochemical has resumed production of its 300kt/year HDPE plant on Jul 15,

• HDPE

The Rubber Authority of Thailand is hoping to raise domestic consumption of rubber products by 10% per year.

• Rubber
• Demand

Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (Adnoc) has announced plans to build a new petrochemicals complex in Ruwais as part of its Borouge joint venture with Vienna-based Borealis.

• Adnoc
• Borouge

Abu Dhabi has moved forward on a multi-billion-dollar expansion of the Borouge petrochemicals complex at Ruwais which is aimed at increasing both the variety and volume of products it can produce.

• Borouge
• Petrochemical

Honeywell (HON) UOP has introduced its new connected plant ARMGuard system, a remote monitoring service that helps natural gas processors manage the adsorbents that are used to remove water from natural gas.

• Honeywell
• Natural
• Gas

Linde Malaysia Sdn Bhd, a member of The Linde Group has launched its first modular automated industrial gases cylinder filling plant in South Asia and ASEAN, located in Banting, Malaysia.

• Linde
• Gas

Ashwani Gujral of ashwanigujral.com told CNBC-TV18, "From Rs 1300 Reliance Industries has never looked back. Now we should expect Rs 1600-1650 coming in on the stock and in any sort of corrective phase, I think Reliance and the Bank Nifty will provid

• Reliance

XOM said that its subsidiary ExxonMobil Exploration and Production Suriname BV along with co-venturers Hess and Statoil, signed a production sharing contract for Block 59 with Staatsolie Maatschappij Suriname NV.

• ExxonMobil

Total SA and Qatar Petroleum (QP) has officially launched their new joint venture to develop the giant Al Shaheen offshore oil field for a period of 25 years beginning 14 July.

• Qatar

Sadara Chemical Company (Sadara) said that it has successfully started up its propylene glycol (PG) plant.

• Propylene
• Saudi
• Sadara

Braskem (BAK) said that it has selected The Linde Group, as the lead engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) contractor to build Braskem's new world-scale North American polypropylene (PP) production line.

• Polypropylene

In an interview, Thomas Kleiner with Chemical Today Magazine delves into how the rising demand and use of chemicals are playing a pivotal role in the growth of filtration & separation solutions.

• Filtration
• Separation

German machinery and injection molding supplier KraussMaffei Group has unveiled its first complete system for continuous pultrusion, iPul.

• KraussMaffei

Shandong Ruyi Technology Group, a China-based multinational enterprise operating textile and apparel businesses, will invest US $ 600 million in the textile industry of Kano State, Nigeria.

• Textile

Pengwei has resumed PTA production yesterday. Its 900kta PTA unit has been shut on Jul 5.

• PTA

Hengli's 1# 2.2 million mt/yr PTA unit was shut on Jun 22 during to a fault detected accidentally and started annual maintenance ahead of schedule.

• PTA

The country's towel export declined by five percent to $704.702 million in July-May 2017, according to the official figures.

• Towel
• Export