OQ Chemicals recently announced that due to supply and demand issues, the company is increasing prices for certain products effective July 1, 2022, or as contracts allow.
Pyran Inc. and NAGASE Specialty Materials (NSM) have partnered for the exclusive conversion of Pyran's bio-based 1,5-pentanediol (PDO) to renewable 1,5-pentanediol diacrylate (PDDA) and other acrylate and methacrylate derivatives.
BASF announced that the company has reached an agreement to divest its manufacturing site in Quincy, Florida, and the associated attapulgite business for a purchase price of $60 million to Clariant.