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Chemical
Chemical | 24 June 2020

Alkyl Amines reports a strong growth in profits

For the full year, the company has posted net profit of Rs. 201.32 crore FY20 as against Rs. 86.10 crore in FY19.

Petrochemical
Petrochemical | 24 June 2020

Solvay announces £1.5 billion impairment charge amid low sales

Sales down by 20% across April and May with similar demand trend seen for June as well.

Chemical
Chemical | 24 June 2020

Phillips Carbon net drops, to expand Palej plant capacity

Annual sales stood at Rs.3272.55 crores as against Rs.3548.49 crores in the previous year.

Chemical
Chemical | 24 June 2020

Sensient announces sale of its yogurt fruit preparations product line

The transaction is expected to close in the third quarter of 2020.

Petrochemical
Petrochemical | 24 June 2020

Johnson Matthey announces successful commissioning of largest methanol plant in China

The JM designed methanol production plant takes syngas as a feed and combines advanced JM catalysts to produce stabilized methanol as a product, which is used to produce olefins in a downstream unit.

Chemical
Chemical | 24 June 2020

Grace doubles colloidal silica capacity with new plant in Germany

This will enable Grace to continue to meet growing global demand in a thriving specialty silica segment, where there is active innovation that enables future growth for key industries.

Chemical
Chemical | 24 June 2020

TFL first to deploy coal gasification tech for urea production

The estimated cost of the project is around Rs. 13,270 crore and total capacity of urea is 12.7 lakh MT at Talcher.

Chemical
Chemical | 24 June 2020

Roquette to join plant protein R&D project Canada

The project will help advance Canada’s plant protein ecosystem.

Chemical
Chemical | 24 June 2020

Overall sales to be down in second quarter says Huntsman

Results are expected to be modestly better than forecast in polyurethanes but weaker in textile effects.

Chemical
Chemical | 24 June 2020

ECHA biocides committee recommends approving three active substances

Committee also concluded that esbiothrin should not be approved for use in insecticides and acaricides as it poses an unacceptable risk to human health.

Battery
Battery | 23 June 2020

LG Chem and Hyundai Motor considering EV battery JV in Indonesia

The news comes as global automakers move to secure electric vehicle batteries in anticipation of a rise in EV sales due to government subsidies and quotas worldwide seeking to cut carbon emissions.

Petrochemical
Petrochemical | 23 June 2020

Hitachi Chemical changes to Showa Denko Materials

The name change represents Hitachi Chemical's determination of opening its new chapter as a consolidated subsidiary of SDK.

Petrochemical
Petrochemical | 23 June 2020

China and India to lead global polypropylene capacity additions

Polypropylene capacity in Asia is expected to increase from 47.25 million tpy in 2019 to 78.04 million tpy in 2024, at an average annual growth rate (AAGR) of 10%.

Chemical
Chemical | 23 June 2020

GeM ask sellers to provide country of origin

GeM has taken this significant step to promote ‘Make in India’ and ‘Aatmanirbhar Bharat’.

Gas
Gas | 23 June 2020

India exploring global funds for compressed biogas projects

India plans to invest $24 billion to produce 15 million tonnes of compressed biogas from 5,000 plants by 2023, and wants bio-manure, a byproduct, to contribute to the growth of organic farming.

Chemical
Chemical | 23 June 2020

Sasol's alcohol unit at Lake Charles achieves beneficial operation

Progresses seven-unit U.S. Gulf Coast mega project to the cusp of completion says the CEO

Chemical
Chemical | 23 June 2020

Sudarshan Chemical reports rise in earnings and profit

The company reported 50.27% rise in consolidated net profit to Rs 131.20 crore on 3.3% rise in total income to Rs 1,730.04 crore in the year ended 31 March 2020 (FY 2020) over FY 2019.

Chemical
Chemical | 23 June 2020

US chemical production declines 2.0% in May says ACC

Chemical production was lower in all regions, with the largest year-ago declines in the West Coast, Ohio Valley and Midwest regions.

Petrochemical
Petrochemical | 23 June 2020

BP invests $5 million in geospatial analytics company Satelytics

Use of the technology has the potential to be part of bp’s aim to install methane measurement at all major oil and gas processing sites by 2023, publish the data and then drive a 50% reduction in methane intensity of its operations.

Chemical
Chemical | 23 June 2020

Celanese extends carbon monoxide feedstock contract in China

The extended contract will provide Celanese’s Nanjing facility with an ongoing and reliable supply of carbon monoxide for its 1,200 kiloton acetic acid plant.

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