The merger of Henan Billions Chemicals Co. Ltd. (Henan Billions) and Sichuan Lomon Titanium Co. Ltd. (Lomon), two of China's largest TiO2 manufacturers, was announced on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange on May 5.
Axalta Coating Systems, a leading global supplier of liquid and powder coatings, has won the Green Repair Innovative Product Award from one of China’s leading automotive publications, Auto Maintenance & Repair Magazine.
WACKER, the Munich-based chemical group, posted annual sales of €1.22 billion in Greater China in 2014, indicating an increase of 14 percent compared with that of the previous year (€1.07 billion in 2013).
BASF’s Coatings Division has entered into a manufacturing agreement with Guangdong Yinfan Chemistry Co. Ltd. (Yinfan) in which Yinfan will manufacture automotive refinish coatings for BASF.
In a new market study, GCiS China Strategic Research estimates that the domestic market for hot melt adhesives in China is valued at over RMB 10.1 billion, or $1.6 billion, as of the end of 2014.
AkzoNobel's Specialty Chemicals business recently broke ground on a new alkoxylation facility in Ningbo, China, bringing the company's total investment in the strategic multi-site to more than €400 million.
IRL has launched a new edition of its single-country report A Profile of the Chinese Paint Industry. In this study, IRL examines China’s paints and coatings market independently and not as part of a regional study on the Asia-Pacific paint market, offering more in-depth information on market influences and trends.
A new report by China-based market research firm GCiS China Strategic Research estimates that the domestic market for flame retardant chemicals in China was valued at nearly RMB 6.8 billion, or roughly $1.1 billion, at the end of 2014.
