Company Dynamic

Liaoning Huajin Tongda has restarted its 60kt/year PP plant on Jun 24 for homo PP raffia F401. The plant was shut on Mar 14 for turnaround, and is now resuming to full capacity production.

• PP
• Liaoning
• Huajin
• Tongda

Sichuan Shuanglong shut one production unit recently. Currently the production of solid re-PSF is about 50mt/d.

• PSF

The designers of BASF’s Coatings division translated the question of individual data control, as well as the need for an extensive gathering of information for technical and social possibilities into a collection of 65 new automotive colors.

• BASF

Dow Chemical and German paper group Koehler have been jointly awarded a US EPA green chemistry challenge award for developing a thermal printing paper that does not need chemical developers, such as bisphenol A or bisphenol S.

• Koehler
• Dow

PPG Industries has given up its pursuit of Dutch rival Akzo Nobel and said it won't make a hostile takeover bid. After being rebuffed three times by the coatings specialist and having a judge toss out a lawsuit brought by a hedge fund to force the issue,

• PPG
• Akzo
• Nobel
• Coating

Syngenta elects new board and Ren Jianxin, Chairman of China National Chemical Corporation (ChemChina), was elected as Chairman of the Board of Directors. Chen Hongbo, Chief Strategy Officer of China National Agrochemical Corporation (CNAC)

• Syngenta
• ChemChina

An urgent notice from Wujiang Environmental Protection Agency said that all printing and dyeing mills were required to be shut down from 9:00PM on Jun 25 and sewage plants should turn off valves from Jun 26 morning.

• Painting
• Dye

Anhui Huaihua Group closed its 100kt/year coal-based MEG plant again on Jun 25 due to problems. How long will the closure last depend on the maintenance process.

• MEG
• Unit

Somet is expected to restart its VSF unit tomorrow after being shut down on environmental issue at the end of last year.

• VSF
• Restart

Textile traders in the State will down shutters in protest against Goods and Services Tax (GST) for three days from June 27.

• Textile
• Trader

Swiss commodities giant Glencore PLC has upped its offer for Rio Tinto PLC’s Australian coal assets, raising the stakes in a bidding war with China-backed Yanzhou Coal Mining Co, Rio said yesterday.

• Glencore
• Rio
• Bid

Radici Chimica SpA, a strategic RadiciGroup company, is keen on continuing business of producing chemical intermediates and PA 6.6 polymers. The chemicals are used as raw materials for a variety of products in the plastics and synthetic fibres industries.

• Radici
• Chimica

Textile dyes are one of the most polluting chemicals that routinely go into our water-bodies. Effluents discharged from the dye industry contain a variety of toxic molecules that, if allowed to flow untreated, severely erode river water quality.

• Textile
• Dyes

Jiangsu Desai increased its direct-spun PSF run rate today. Its virgin PSF production has increased from 110mt/d to 350mt/d.

• PSF

Tyre giant Michelin has announced plans to significantly re-organise globally, resulting in significant job losses in France and the US most of which will be covered by natural attrition, according to Tyrepress.

• Michelin
• Re-Organise

Shipment to Bangladesh's single largest export destination is down by 4.93 percent in the first ten months of the current fiscal.

• Export
• U.S.

Braskem SA is moving forward with plans to build a massive new polypropylene resin line in La Porte, Texas.

• PP
• Braskem

US retailer Costco has launched a product screening programme to learn more about which chemicals of "regulatory and social concern" are in the products it sells.

• Costco
• Chemical

Braskem, the leading thermoplastics resins producer in the Americas, on June 22nd announced that the Company’s Board of Directors has formally approved the final investment decision to proceed with

• Braskem
• Polypropylene

PPG experts and technology development partners will discuss innovative coatings, adhesives and sealants technologies for the automotive industry in three presentations during the 29th SURCAR Cannes Congress, June 29–30.

• Coating