Company Dynamic

Innovation is at the heart of Jotun’s culture. The Norwegian headquartered business, with operations in 45 countries, is committed to an on-going programme of research and development (R&D).

• Fire
• Protection
• Coating

Global coatings manufacturer PPG Industries (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) reported growth in net sales and sales volumes in its first quarter, bolstered in part by a 7 percent jump in sales in the Industrial Coatings segment.

• PPG
• Coating

As drugmakers face growth challenges in the U.S. and other developed countries, China is looking more enticing to one CEO. Novartis chief Joe Jimenez thinks the market is set for a boom period as the industry launches a wave of new meds in the country.

• China
• Pharmaceutical

Formosa Plastics USA shut a polyvinyl chloride line at its Point Comfort, Texas, plant following a line leak, the company said in a filing Thursday.

• PG

A major shift has taken place within the coatings industry over recent years – driven by the adoption of new technologies aimed at improving paint performance as well as sustainability and health.

• Middle East
• Dow
• coating
• painting

Ashland’s fiberHanceTM bm solution received the Gold award for Best New Functional Ingredient last night at in-cosmetics Global in London.

• Ashland
• personal care

Yuhuang Chemical has begun construction on a 1.8 million mt/year methanol plant that the company expects to start in the fourth quarter of 2019, the company said.

• Yuhuang
• Chemical
• Methanol

China's Sinopec Yangzi Petrochemical is currently running its steam crackers and butadiene plants normally, sources close to the company said Friday.

• Sinopec
• Yangzi
• Cracker

China's Sinopec Yangzi Petrochemical is currently running its steam crackers and butadiene plants normally, sources close to the company said Friday.

• Sinopec
• Yangzi
• Cracker

China's exports dropped 2.0 percent in 2016 in yuan terms, official data showed Friday, as sluggish global demand weighed on the world's number two economy.

• China
• Export

Taiwan imported 65.32 million mt of thermal coal in 2016, down 2% on the year to the lowest annual volume since 2012, as shipments from Indonesia and Russia dropped, customs data showed Wednesday.

• coal
• import
• Taiwan

Accella Polyurethane Systems LLC ("Accella") has completed the purchase of certain assets of the North American spray polyurethane foam (SPF) business located in Spring, TX, from Covestro LLC.

• Accella
• polyurethane

PPG has announced that AMERCOAT One coating, the industry’s first true one-component epoxy coating, has earned a 2017 Corrosion Innovation of the Year Award from Materials Performance magazine.

• PPG
• coating

BASF is unveiling Xfast Easy Color, the first ever solid color pigment preparation range for point-of-sale (POS) for the professional and do-it-yourself (DIY) market, under its Color & Effects brand at the European Coatings Show.

• BASF
• coating

PPG has opened a nearly $3 million expansion for packaging coatings manufacturing at its Oak Creek, Wisconsin, plant.

• PPG
• coating

Wacker Polymers is to raise its prices for dispersions and dispersible polymer powders in Europe effective April 15, 2017, or as customer contracts allow.

• Wacker
• coating

PPG has named Daniel Bencun global platform business director for aerospace coatings and a member of PPG’s aerospace global leadership team.

• PPG
• coating

Combined coal stocks held by China's six leading power generators in southern and eastern China, namely Zhejiang Power, Shanghai Power, Guangdong Power (Yudean), Guodian, Datang, and Huaneng, averaged 9.57 million mt ...

• Coal

BASF has declared force majeure in North America on PolyTHF®　following an event that impacted production in its Tetrahydrofuran (THF) ...

• BASF