Paint & Coating News

Recently, styrene continues to repair upwards, and the momentum is slightly insufficient.

• Styrene

Chemours announces the launch of a new Ti-Pure titanium dioxide (TiO2) product portfolio: the Ti-Pure™ Sustainability (TS) series, which includes two high-performance grades.

• Chemours
• Titanium Dioxide

Recently, the market reported the news of Sirbang's shutdown and maintenance. Affected by this, the methanol disc is generally weak. With the shutdown and maintenance of Sirbang, it is expected that methanol will accumulate significantly in December.

• Methanol

Recently, Yunnan Zhongxin New Materials Co., Ltd. has an annual output of 2,000 tons of powder coating project is undergoing environmental impact assessment.

• Powder Coating

Recently, LyondellBasel and Audi AG reached a cooperation to help achieve a full closed-loop cycle of mixed automotive plastic waste. Audi installed a plastic seat belt buckle cover in the Q8 e-tron made of polypropylene produced from LyondellBasel, based

• LyondellBasell
• Audi

Kansai Paint announced that its European subsidiary, Kansai Helios Coatings GmbH, signed a share purchase agreement to acquire all the shares of CWS Lackfabrik GmbH headquartered in Düren, Germany.

• Kansai
• CWS Lackfabrik GmbH

Shell Oil, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Shell, has reached an agreement to acquire a 100% stake in Natural Energy Biogas, a renewable natural gas producer headquartered in Denmark, for nearly $2 billion.

• Shell Oil

Hubei Haigus New Energy Co., Ltd., a secondary holding subsidiary of Jiangsu Oriental Shenghong Co., Ltd., plans to invest in the construction of supporting raw materials and new energy materials projects of iron phosphate and lithium iron phosphate.

• new energy materials

The operating performance of China's carbon black industry this year has declined significantly, and the profit in the first three quarters was 430 million yuan, down 81.09% year-on-year.

• carbon

Wanhua Chemical Group Co., Ltd. announced that it will reduce the price of MDI in China in December 2022

• MDI

Announcement on the Environmental Impact Assessment Approval of the 3 Million Tons/Year Olefin Project in Inner Mongolia.

• single-plant
• coal-to-olefins

Zhejiang Jinge Material Technology Co., Ltd. Annual Output of 30,000 tons of fireproof coating project environmental information publicity.

• fireproof
• fireproof-coatings
• Environment

The third quarter of 2022 results briefing that the company is building the process and color system of original paint, and the subsidiary Huatu Chemical is conducting relevant original product certification and testing.

• Matsui

The latest statistics show that in the first 9 months of this year, China's cumulative export volume of styrene was 542,300 tons, a year-on-year increase of 189.63%.

• styrene
• domestic

Covestro recently started producing naphthalene diisocyanates (NDIs) for Vulkolan® at its new plant in Map Ta Phut, Thailand.

• Covestro

BASF recently announced that its subsidiaries continue to deepen their investment in China.

• BASF

China's pure benzene imports were 283,300 tons, the cumulative import volume was 2.5541 million tons.

• Pure Benzene

It is reported that Jinneng Chemical (Qihe) is 100% funded by Jinneng Technology and obtained a business license on August 16 this year, and its business scope includes the manufacture of basic chemical raw materials.

• propane trading business

Hengguang Group announced that its Anhui Hengguang Polyurethane Materials Co., Ltd. plans to build a special amine project with an annual output of 50,000 tons in Chizhou, and has basically completed the preliminary preparations.

• amine

How to carry out cleaning verification efficiently and orderly? How to develop a clean verification strategy?

• cleaning verification