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Since 1949, the chemical industry in Shandong Province has undergone significant development and transformation. From the initial 126 chemical enterprises with fixed assets valued at 4.07 million yuan, by 2023, the main business income of large-scale chem

According to the proposal from the European Commission, Anhui Jinxing Group will face a tariff of €0.25 per kilogram, while Longbai Group's tariff will be €0.74. For companies that cooperated with the investigation, the tax rate is set at €0.64, while oth

According to information from the U.S. clinical trial registry Clinicaltrials on December 10, Chinese company Heng Rui Pharma has launched its first Phase III clinical trial (SHR-1918-301) for the ANGPTL3 monoclonal antibody SHR-1918.

Merck acquired VelosBio for $2.75 billion in November 2020, gaining its ROR1 ADC drug, zilovertamab vedotin (VLS-101), which was then in early clinical development and had received orphan drug designation (ODD) and fast track designation (FTD) from the U.

From trade data, between January and October 2024, China’s exports to Syria reached $330 million, while imports were only $25,600. The export figures far exceed the import and investment amounts, clearly reflecting Syria's weak consumption and production

Warpaint London, parent company of the popular cosmetics brands W7 and Technic, has reached an agreement to acquire beauty specialist Brand Architekts.

• Warpaint London
• Brand Architekts

Chemours announced that PCC plans to build and operate a chlor-alkali facility at the Chemours titanium dioxide (TiO2) plant in DeLisle, Mississippi, USA.

• Chemours
• PCC

KH Neochem Co. has decided to stop production and sales of some solvents produced at its Yokkaichi plant by December 2025.

• KH Neochem

On December 9, the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China held a meeting to analyze and study the economic work for 2025.

According to the US International Trade Administration, the US Department of Commerce recently announced that the final determination date for certain epoxy resin products imported from China below fair value sales (LTFV, i.e. anti-dumping investigation)

According to data released by the National Bureau of Statistics on Dec 9, the producer price of industrial products fell by 2.5% year-on-year in November 2024, narrowing down by 0.4 percentage points from the previous month. Specifically, oil and gas extr

The above transactions constitute a series of mutually effective transactions, and if any of them is not effective, the other transactions will not be effective. After the completion of the transaction, Beixin Building Materials will hold a total of 51.41

With the arrival of winter and the drop in temperature, the active period of respiratory pathogens has arrived. According to recent surveillance data from the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, a variety of pathogens are causing acute resp

The Thai Food and Drug Authority (FDA) issued new compliance standards and certification requirements for imported food production systems on November 29, 2024, with immediate effect from the date of publication.

The European Commission recently made a decision to terminate the marketing authorization of the fungicide amphenicone early. According to the decision, the use of this fungicide will be banned in the European Union from 15 January 2025.

Yara is the first company in Brazil to produce ammonia made from renewable biomethane and has already delivered the first low-carbon products to customers.

• Yara
• biomethane

Oman’s Sohar Port and Free Zone has begun construction of the world’s second largest polymer manufacturing plant, a $300 million project undertaken by Universal Fine Chemicals SPC covering an area of 240,000 square meters.

• Oman
• Polymer plant

FibreCoat, a German company based in Aachen that produces affordable high-performance materials, has raised nearly $20 million (about €18.98 million) in Series B funding.

• FibreCoat

Mumbai-based D2C beauty brand SugarCosmetics is raising INR 38 crore ($4.5 million) from existing investors including Anicut Equity Continuum Fund, Elevation Capital, Malabar Investments and L Catterton.

• SugarCosmetics