Company Dynamic

Germany-based oxo-alcohols producer BASF has declared force majeure on US butyl acrylate (butyl-A), according to a customer letter received on Tuesday.

• BASF
• ButylAcrylate

Unilever announced on May 15 that it has signed an agreement to acquire the personal care and home care brands of Quala, the Latin American consumer goods company.

• Unilever
• Personal Care
• Quala

Sigma Plastics Group, already the largest privately owned film extrusion group in North America, is expanding again. This time in Kentucky.

• Merge
• Plastic

AkzoNobel and chemicals manufacturing company Atul have formally agreed upon the joint venture partnership announced last year for the production of monochloroacetic acid (MCA) in India.

• AkzoNobel
• Atul
• India

Dow Chemical said Thursday it’s planning to spend $4 billion in further expansions in Texas, its Michigan headquarters and in Europe.

• Dow

Astrazeneca led the way on the FTSE 100 this morning as London’s leading stock market index was on course to finish the week at a seven-week high.

• Pharmaceutical

Netherlands-based AkzoNobel, a leading global paints company, has joined hands with Luxembourg’s Jean Boulle Luxury for the production of aviation grade Sun King Diamond Coating for the private and commercial jet markets.

• AkzoNobel
• Coating

Unilever, the multinational corporation behind brand names like Dove, Bru, and Kwality Wall’s, is attempting to fix some of the damage to the environment caused by its myriad products' plastic packaging as it clogs up landfills and oceans.

• Plastic
• Technology

ExxonMobil Chemical Company said Thursday that it has reached an agreement with Singapore's Jurong Aromatics Corporation Pte. Ltd. to acquire its aromatics plant on Jurong Island.

• ExxonMobil

Dow Chemical Co. is increasing its already major investments in U.S. plastics and petrochemicals.

• Dow
• US
• Investments

On April 21, 2017, the Texanlab Laboratories Pvt. Ltd. opened its third state of the art and technologically advanced laboratory at Tirupur (Tamilnadu), a town in South India famous for knitwear exports and known as Manchester of India.

• Textile
• DyStar

BASF was named the 2017 FCA US LLC Sustainability Supplier of the Year for the second time.

• Coating
• BASF

In a May 8 statement, the Amsterdam-based company said the decision followed an “extensive review and careful consideration of” the PPG offer, which was made on April 24.

• AkzoNobel
• PPG

Huntsman Corporation announced today that it has completed the acquisition of IFS Chemicals Limited (IFS), one of the UK’s leading independent formulators of methylene diphenyl diisocyanate (MDI) based systems.

• Huntsman
• IFS

The restart of the 1.3 million mt/year Celanese/Mitsui methanol plant in Clear Lake, Texas, after a turnaround hit a snag that led to a shutdown, according to a weekend filing to state regulators.

• Methanol

Counterfeit cosmetics, including fakes of some of the world’s biggest brands, were put on display at the Interior Ministry on Monday as an official announced that nearly 70 tons of beauty products had been recovered in “historic busts” ...

• Cosmetics

Akzo Nobel, the Dutch paint and chemicals company, on Monday rejected a merger offer from its American rival PPG Industries for the third time since early March, saying it preferred to go it alone.

• PPG
• Akzo
• Nobel

Medical technology group Becton, Dickinson and Co. says it will turn a plant in Columbus, Neb., into one of the largest, most sophisticated injection molding operations in the world with a $60 million investment that brings most molding...

• Plastic

The surge in investment into the US petrochemicals industry over the past seven years has been one of the biggest spending booms in a developed country this century.

• Chemical
• US
• Dow