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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

Equinor UK Ltd and Shell UK Ltd will combine their UK offshore oil and gas assets and expertise to form a new company that will be the largest independent producer in the UK North Sea.

• Equinor
• Shell

Japanese beauty brand Waphyto has launched at The Store X in Berlin. The herbal, botanical-based clean beauty brand will launch a curated selection of skin and hair products at the Soho House retail space in Berlin.

• Waphyto
• Store X

Koppers, a wholly owned subsidiary of Koppers Holdings, has announced that it will cease phthalic anhydride production at its Stickney, Illinois facility in 2025.

• Koppers

From November 25 to 30, 2024, the Codex Alimentarius Commission (CAC) held its 47th meeting, where it unanimously approved an important resolution to formally include Jagua blue in the list of food additives and established specific regulations for the us

On December 3, 2024, the Saudi Arabian Ministry of Health released two proposals aimed at establishing new food standards. The first proposal involves six food standards, including product standards for four items (smoked fish, salted fish, salad dressing

On December 4, 2024, the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) officially issued a public consultation document numbered PC-1228, concerning a proposal for the authorization of microalgae extract oil as a new food product. Here’s an overview of the docume