Company Dynamic

Biopharmaceutical manufacturing is a complex process involving precise amounts of materials and numerous variables that can affect drug product quality and yield.

• Biopharmaceutical

BASF SE plans to build a new world-scale plant to produce ibuprofen in Ludwigshafen, Germany.

• Ibuprofen
• BASF
• Germany

Total SA’s refining and chemicals platform in Antwerp has started up production of ethylene using ethane feedstock.

• Petrochemical
• Antwerp

Evonik Industries AG as a pioneer in digitalization is setting aside €100 million ($113.4 million) and is also entering into a strategic partnership with IBM and University of Duisburg-Essen.

• Digitalization
• Evonik

CNOOC closed its aromatics plant at Huizhou, Guangdong province on Jul 2 for 40-50 days of maintenance. The plant could produce 350kt/year of benzene, 170kt/year of toluene and 125kt/year of mixed xylenes.

• CNOOC
• Aromatics

Reliance Industries has pulled out of the last oil block it held in Peru, trimming its overseas assets to just two properties in Myanmar.

• Reliance
• Oil

Thermoplastics compounder Polyram Plastic Industries Ltd. plans to lease and renovate a 100,000-square-foot facility in Evansville, which will be its first U.S. production facility.

• Materials
• Middle East
• US
• Polyram

GW Plastics Inc. is adding three two-shot injection molding machines at its plant in Tuscon, Ariz., to handle increased business from the medical market.

• GW

Chicago Bridge & Iron Company (CBI) has been awarded a contract by Venture Global LNG, for engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) of two LNG storage tanks for its Calcasieu Pass export facility, in Southwest Louisiana.

• CBI

Biesterfeld AG expands its cooperation with ExxonMobil Petroleum & Chemical and distributes Exxtral performance polyolefins in Sweden, Denmark, Norway and Finland.

• Biesterfeld

Lonza Group has completed the acquisition of Capsugel SA (Capsugel) from KKR & Co, for $5.5 billion in cash, including refinancing of existing Capsugel debt of approximately $2 billion.

• Lonza

Axalta Coating Systems (NYSE: AXTA), a leading global liquid and powder coatings supplier, coats China's new Fuxing model bullet train in collaboration with CRRC Qingdao Sifang Co., Ltd.

• Coating
• Paint
• Axalta

Applied Graphene Materials has partnered with HMG Paints to develop and commercialize grahene-containing coatings for a variety of industries.

• Coatings

Public Investment Bank Research said prospects are still attractive for soon-to-be-listed Lotte Chemical Titan Holding Berhad (LCT) and values the stock at RM7.72.

• Lotte
• Chemical
• Titan

Pengwei shut the 900kta PTA unit on a technical glitch yesterday and may restart it in a week.

• PTA

Former Tata Finance Managing Director Dilip Pendse allegedly committed suicide in Mumbai on Wednesday.

• Tata
• Finance

EuroChem Group AG has acquired a minority interest (50%-1 share) in Hispalense de Liquidos, a family-owned producer of liquid nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium (NPK) blends in Spain

• EuroChem

Chicago Bridge & Iron Company (CBI) said that Patrick Mullen has assumed the role of CB&I's president and CEO, effective 1 July.

• CEO
• CB&I

Lanxess AG expands its range of membrane elements for reverse osmosis (RO), with new Lewabrane RO ULP line, which has three product grades for water treatment.

• Lanxess

CBI has been awarded a contract by Venture Global LNG, for EPC of two LNG storage tanks for its Calcasieu Pass export facility, in Southwest Louisiana.

• CB&I