Paint & Coating News

INVISTA's nylon chemical adiponitrile (ADN) production base was completed in Shanghai Chemical Industry Park, the largest investment project in the history of INVISTA.

• INVISTA
• adiponitrile

Recently, S&P Global's latest Specialty Chemicals Update Program (SCUP) "Catalysts, Petroleum and Chemical Processes" report said that in 2021, the polymerization catalyst market was worth about $9.8 billion.

• S&P
• SCUP
• petroleum
• Polymerization

LG Chem announced that the company signed a memorandum of understanding with the State of Tennessee, USA, to spend more than $3 billion to build the largest cathode material factory in the United States.

• cathode material plant

The National Bureau of Statistics released data on the 27th, in the first 10 months of this year, the total profit of industrial enterprises above designated size in the country was 6.97682 billion yuan, down 3.0% year-on-year.

• National Bureau statistics
• Raw Materials

According to the content of the announcement, the total investment of the project is 1 billion yuan, and it is planned to start construction in December.

• green
• building materials

Yara and Oerth Bio collaborated to boost plant resilience to combat escalating climate stress impacting crop production and farm economies.

• Oerth Bio

SABIC's collaboration with Guangdong Jinming Machinery Co., Ltd., and Bolsas de los Altos will focus on application development activities for flexible packaging segment.

• SABIC

BASF inaugurates its surface treatment site in Pinghu, China to provide a wide range of digital applications and automation and meet local demands.

• BASF
• digital applications

Cambi has signed a contract with Sasol to supply a thermal hydrolysis pilot plant to process industry sludge into syngas for waste management.

• BIO
• hydrocarbon fuel

DCW Limited (speciality chemical company in India) plans to double its CPVC capacity by adding another 10KT capacity.

The Board has appointed Alexander Gerding as the Managing Director of the Company for a term of 5 years, effective 1 January, 2023.

• BASF
• India

Shell Chemical Appalachia has started operations of its Pennsylvania Chemical project, Shell Polymers Monaca.

• Pennsylvania
• Polymers

Equinor ASA said that it has submitted a plan for development and operation for the Irpa gas discovery in the Norwegian Sea.

TotalEnergies and Air Liquide innovate to produce renewable, low carbon hydrogen at the Grandpuits Zero crude platform in France.

• low-carbon
• hydrogen

Midland New Materials intends to increase its capital by 450 million yuan to its wholly-owned subsidiary Meilian New Materials (Sichuan) Co., Ltd.

• new energy
• Polymer

On November 21, the 480,000 tons/year bisphenol A device of Wanhua Chemical Group Co., Ltd.

• bisphenol A

Haili Chemical adipic acid plant maintenance

• adipic
• Adipic Acid
• acid

A total of 26 products declined, accounting for 41.9%, and the top products with the largest declines were aniline (23.9%), 1,4-butanediol (BDO 11.4%) and acrylonitrile (6.0%).

• coat support
• sulphur
• butadiene
• Butyl Acrylate
• aniline

Henan Wolong Coating Technology Co., Ltd., located in Nanyang Guanzhuang Advanced Manufacturing Development Zone, held a kick-off ceremony for the 100,000-ton paint production line project, announcing that it was officially put into production.

• paint
• Investment
• coating

Five coating service contracts were signed within 10 days, with a total contract value of more than 240 million yuan.

• Painting&Coating