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Nova Chemicals Corp. says it has developed a flexible film structure that provides an oxygen barrier and yet is easily recyclable.

• Nova
• Oxygen-Barrier

Tire making giant Michelin has a new concept tire and wheel, one that wouldn't require air but instead would use 3D printing to create a complex structure that would provide both structural strength and flexibility.

• Tires
• Michelin
• 3D

Tianjin PC shuts its 340kta PTA unit for 10-day turnaround this morning.

• Tianjin
• PC
• PTA

Michelin wants to reinvent the wheel – and the tire too – via the Vision concept the company introduced at its Movin’On conference in Montreal this week. The one-piece wheel-and-tire combo is “airless, connected, rechargeable,

• Michelin
• Wheel

I country expects to sign a long-delayed gas deal with French oil major Total <TOTF.PA> in the next few weeks, I countryian Oil Minister Bijan Zanganeh was quoted as saying on Saturday.

• Total

Novartis AG (NVS) said Monday that it has received approval from the European Commission for a blood cancer treatment known as Rixathon, a biosimilar version of Roche AG's (RHHBY) blockbuster Rituxan that generated around $7.5 billion in sales last year.

• Novartis
• European

Noble Group Ltd (NOBG.SI) on Tuesday confirmed it had extended a key debt deadline and was in "constructive" talks with potential investors, but the crisis-hit trader also pushed back payment of the coupon on a closely watched bond.

• Noble
• Coupon
• Payment

Southeastern Michigan’s Cranbrook Art Museum hosts the U.S. debut of an exhibition featuring the work of an influential modernist designer who was less well known than many of his contemporaries.

• Textile

Hanbang Petrochemical has shut the 2.2 million mt/yr PTA unit today for 2-week turnaround.

• PTA

BP upgraded its PTA plant in Charlestown, South Carolina and expanded its capacity by 10% to 1.4 million mt/yr. The upgrade will also cut the facility's carbon emissions by about 109 kt/yr.

• BP
• PTA

Chinese built Hawassa Industrial Park to be Ethiopia’s blue print for Green Economic Zones as it is designed and constructed in an environment-friendly principles,

• China
• Industrial
• Park

Chevron Phillips Chemical Company LP (Chevron Phillips Chemical) announced today that the two polyethylene (PE) units of its $6 billion petrochemical investment on the U.S. Gulf Coast successfully

• Chevron
• Phillips
• Chemical

Deep and non-saturated blues emerged as top car hues in automotive paint supplier BASF Coatings' annual color trends report, a 65-color recommendation for automakers.

• BASF
• Paints

Berger International Private Limited (BIPL), the Singapore-based indirect subsidiary of Asian Paints, has sold its entire stake in Lewis Berger (Overseas Holdings) Limited (LBOH),

• Berger
• International
• Coating

PPG (NYSE:PPG) today marked the opening of a 45 million euros (US$49 million) paint and coatings manufacturing facility and commercial operation in the Lipetsk region of Russia.

PPG (NYSE:PPG) today marked the opening of a 45 million euros (US$49 million) paint and coatings manufacturing facility and commercial operation in the Lipetsk region of Russia.

• PPG
• Paint
• and
• Coating

Dyeing plants in Wujiang of Jiangsu received emergency notice in the night of Jun 15th 2017 that the output should be suspended for half and no document was seen.

• Textile
• Dye

Gaomi Silver Hawk's one VSF line caught small fire early last week, which was shut for maintenance and it already came back on stream at the weekend.

• VSF
• line
• Textile

Dow Chemical Co. and DuPont Co. won U.S. antitrust approval for their $73 billion merger, overcoming one of the last remaining hurdles to a deal that would create a global chemicals giant.

• Dow
• Dupont

Groupe Michelin has filed a public tender offer in France to acquire 1,042,324 shares in natural rubber producer Société Internationale de Plantations d’Hévéas (SIPH) not currently under its control.

• Michelin
• Rubber