Company Dynamic

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

Anticipating a surge in demand for turbo-charged engines in China’s automotive industry, DuPont Co.'s performance materials unit has installed a 3D suction blow-molding machine at its Shanghai research and development center.

• DuPont

Sonoco Products Co. is delving deeper into flexible and forming packaging films through the purchase of Clear Lam Packaging Inc.

• Plastics
• Packing

BASF and PJSC MMC Norilsk Nickel (Nornickel) announced today that they have signed a Memorandum of Understanding and entered exclusive negotiations to cooperate on the supply of raw materials for future battery materials production...

• BASF

Packaging firm Comar LLC has acquired injection molder and mold maker ProPlas Technologies for an undisclosed price.

• Plastics
• Packing

PVC film producer American Renolit Corp. is planning a $25 million expansion at its La Porte, Ind., factory.

• PVC
• Renolit
• Indiana

Reliance Industries refinanced USD 2.3 billion of syndicate and club loans resulting in substantial interest savings, company Chairman Mukesh Ambani has said.

• Reliance

Wittmann Group has completely revised additional rotational axes for its W821 and W321 series of compact robots.

• Wittmann