BASF Venture Capital is investing in the Longwater Advanced Materials Fund.

BASF is enhancing its regional innovation capabilities with new facilities at the Innovation Campus Shanghai, to further strengthen collaboration with the automotive industry and to offer new process catalysts to the chemical industry.

Pilot Chemical Corp. has launched a revitalized strategy designed to increase growth and innovation and put a deeper focus on its employees and customers.

Pilot Chemical Co., Cincinnati, Ohio, made two important changes to its board of directors.

In 2017, Perstorp showed a sales increase of 23% to SEK 13,592 million and reached volume-based sales growth of 10%.

The Supervisory Board of Covestro has agreed on an amicable retirement of Patrick Thomas as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) effective May 31, 2018.

The global chemical company Oxea aims to annually produce 60,000 metric tons of dioctyl terephthalate (DOTP), a general-purpose non-ortho-phthalate plasticizer, in Europe by the second half of 2019.

WACKER is strengthening its presence in Russia by expanding the service portfolio offered by its technical center in Moscow, integrating a new dedicated laboratory for adhesives and sealants based on silane-terminated polyethers (hybrid polymers) used mostly in the construction industry.

DowDuPont announced that Andrew N. Liveris will be transitioning out of the role as Executive Chairman, and then retiring as the Materials Science Division of the company progresses on its succession process.

AkzoNobel Specialty Chemicals and Evonik Industries have successfully started production at their new joint venture to produce chlorine and potassium hydroxide at the company's Ibbenbüren site in Germany.