Company Dynamic

All of the LLDPE, LDPE and HDPE offers declined to some extent in February 2017. The monthly average price of LDPE was RMB 11,341/mt in February, down by 5.9% M-O-M. Traders began to guess when the PE prices can rebound?

• PE

Asia butadiene (BD) spot prices still have room to fall in April because of swollen inventories at ports in China and dwindling demand.

• Butadiene

The quest to optimize water re-use and anticipate regulatory pressures is driving many plants to give increasing attention to their wastewater. To help meet the challenges, wastewater treatment specialists such as Dow Water & Process Solutions...

• Water
• Treatment

FMC Emerges as DuPont Crop Protection Business Buyer, Becomes 5th Largest Ag Chemical Company.

• FMC
• agriculture
• DuPont

Saudi Aramco has invited China’s Sinopec to take part in the upcoming initial public offering (IPO) of the Saudi oil company planned for next year, the Chinese firm’s chairman Wang Yupu said on Monday.

• Saudi
• Arabia
• China
• Sinopec

Saudi Aramco may be the object of intense worldwide speculation, as investment banks and global stock exchanges salivate at the prospect of the expected largest IPO ever, but Saudi Arabia actually has much more than its oil sector to offer investors.

• Saudi
• Oil

NOVA Chemicals Corporation (“NOVA Chemicals”) and Borealis AG (“Borealis”) signed a preliminary agreement to form a joint venture (JV) with Total Petrochemicals and Refining USA, Inc.

• Ethylene

Inland methanol market: The sales in some areas of Northwest China were fairish last week, but a few producers in central Shaanxi, Shandong, Henan and Hebei still faced pressure to sell. There were several unfavorable factors:

• Methanol

A year ago, Novartis inked a high-profile partnership with tech giant Qualcomm to develop a smart inhaler, in a clear bid to compete with its chief rival in the respiratory market, GlaxoSmithKline, which had formed a similar partnership with Propeller Hea

• Drug
• Pharmaceutical
• Health
• Respiratory

One-time Valeant enthusiast and hedge fund manager Bill Ackman has already lamented his huge bet on the now-imploded drugmaker as “one very big mistake.” But now, he’s going a step further, apologizing to investors for that mistake...

• Pharmaceutical

Roche surprised industry watchers on Tuesday when it placed a $65,000 list price on multiple sclerosis blockbuster-to-be Ocrevus, sparking comparisons with a more expensive—and less effective, according to trial data—Merck KGaA rival...

• Pharmaceutical

U.S. pharma brands jumped in value almost across the board in Brand Finance's annual look at the nation’s most valuable. The lone exception? Valeant Pharmaceuticals

• Pharmaceutical

Warp Drive Bio has partnered with GSK to discover potential therapeutics in oncology and other diseases.

• Pharmaceutical

If Novartis does snap up Amneal to beef up its own Sandoz unit, the deal will say as much about the state of the generics industry as it does about Novartis.

• Drug

The Chinese acrylonitrile market is stagnant. Producers’ sales are good and the inventory is low. However, traders sell goods with difficulties, getting limited profits. What are reasons for the difference between acrylonitrile producers and traders?

• Acrylonitrile