TA’ZIZ bad $2-billion oversubscribed financing to build UAE’s first world-scale methanol plant
TA’ZIZ Methanol Company, a joint project among TA’ZIZ and Proman, has reached financial close on a $2-billion (AED 7.34-billion) financing...
Mitsubishi Chemical to Exit Biodegradable Plastics Business in Thailand
The company stated it determined that long-term sustainable growth of polybutylene succinate manufacturing would be hard under present market situations....
Asahi Kasei to Discontinue Styrene, Polyethylene and Acrylonitrile Manufacturing by 2030
The company plans to stop manufacturing of numerous petrochemical derivatives at its Mizushima Works facility in Japan as part of...
Charbone Opens First U.S. Hydrogen Distribution Hub in New York
The Albany facility is targeted to support semiconductor, healthcare, aerospace and advanced industrial customers throughout the Northeast technology corridor. Canada-based...
Specialty Chemicals’ power shift: From production scale to orchestration & control
A new report from Redseer Strategy Consultants alerts a structural shake-up in the worldwide specialty chemicals industry—one wherein control is...
Iran war’s global impact keeps rising
With on-and-off negotiations persisting between the United States and Iran over freight passage via the Strait of Hormuz, the effect...
Evonik beats profit target as Middle East conflict drives supply chain fears
German specialty chemicals group Evonik surpassed earnings expectations in the first quarter of 2026, at the same time as geopolitical...
Lone Star to attain DOMO Chemicals’ engineered materials biz in major specialty polymers deal
DOMO Chemicals has declared that an affiliate of Lone Star Funds has agreed to attain its Engineered Materials (EM) business,...
Safic-Alcan expands in India with majority stake in SA Ingredients
Specialty chemicals distributor Safic-Alcan has taken a majority stake in SA Ingredients Private Limited (SAI), reinforcing its push into India’s...
A Chemical Breakthrough That Could Fix the Plastic Crisis
Hyper-industrial-scale plastic manufacturing has end up an industrial-scale health, environmental, and remediation issue. It is challenging to position a dollar...