Company Dynamic

Zhejiang Donghua stopped 30kt/yr direct-spun PSF unit for maintenance and is expected to reopen it in mid-Jul.

• PSF

When William Bayliss is in the air, he wants to make sure he's the one flying the machine, not the machine flying him. That's why blimps are more his speed than planes.

• Goodyear

Dow Chemical Co. and DuPont Co. still plan to merge, cut billions more in costs and thousands of additional jobs, and reorganize into three smaller companies.

• Dow
• DuPont

PPG today announced the completion of a COLORFUL COMMUNITIES™ project in Milan, Italy, that helped revitalize the Villa Arconati, a historic villa in the hamlet of Castellazzo di Bollate that is the headquarters of...

• PPG
• Colorful

a DuPont spinoff company that inherited liability for some of its parent's nastiest toxic messes – announced "voluntary actions" to clean up and eliminate pollution from a highly fluorinated chemical.

• Clean
• Companies

Taiwan's Toung Loong Textile is launching a new line of fabrics consisting of a blend of INVISTA's popular COOLMAX AIR technology with LYCRA fiber.

• Textile

BASF will consider buying seed assets that rivals are putting on the block to win antitrust approval for tie-ups, saying bargain prices could persuade BASF to overcome its traditional reluctance to expand into the seeds industry.

• BASF

The first in the industry, Royal Dutch Shell said it's aligned with a transparency measure on climate steered by former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg.

• Shell

Ian Taylor, head of the world's largest independent oil trader Vitol, says Brent crude prices will stay in a range of $40-$55 a barrel for the next few quarters as higher U.S. production slows a rebalancing of the market.

• Vitol
• Trading

Materials supplier Covestro AG will be looking to bolt-on acquisitions to boost its specialty business and add tailored solutions for its customers in the next five years, according to CEO Patrick Thomas.

• Covestro

Cooper Standard Automotive Inc. has opened its new Asia-Pacific Sealing Test and Sealing Prototype Centers in Shanghai.

• Cooper

Three Baxter collaborative robots toil away at Vanguard Plastics Corp., a small custom molder.

• Equipment

The production of grey fabrics has taken a hit in Surat, the country's largest man-made fabric (MMF) sector with production decreasing by almost 55 percent in the last fortnight due to the agitation by textile traders against Goods...

• Polyester
• Fabric

Axalta Coating Systems will exhibit its recently acquired wood coatings products and services at the Association of Woodworking & Furnishings Suppliers (AWFS) Fair in Las Vegas from July 19 to 22, 2017.

• Coating
• Axalta

AIA of Ann Arbor, Mich., reports that North American sales of machine vision systems and components hit $597 million in the first quarter of 2017, a 10 percent gain on the first quarter of last year.

• Automated
• Machinery

Auto supplier HBPO GmbH is expanding its North American presence by adding two new plants in Mexico and is adding more plastics production with a new contract to mold active grille shutters in the region.

• HBPO
• Auto
• Mexico

New Jersey custom insert molder and injection molder Weiss-Aug Co. Inc. has opened its first manufacturing facility outside the United States in the Monterrey metropolitan area of northern Mexico.

• Automotive
• US
• Mexico
• Expansions

Surface material products produced under the brand names of Benecke-Kaliko and Hornschuch will be branded as part of Continental AG, as the merger of the two companies gathers pace.

• Surface
• Benecke-Kaliko
• Hornschuch
• Surface Materials

Nylon 6/6 powerhouse Ascend Performance Materials is looking at growth in China's packaging and automotive markets as it continues to cope with the tightening market globally for its wares.

• Ascend
• China

Farrel Pomini employees are working on the long-term future, such as the growing use of biopolymers and new compounding technology, while they look to the past — literally over the hill from their gleaming new building in Ansonia.

• Farrel Pomini