Chemical Weekly

A weekly trade journal catering to Indian chemical industry

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🧪 Petrochemical Margins Watch: $BAK (Braskem) Q3 squeezed as PE-naphtha spreads fell 16% ($457 to $385/ton). Meanwhile in China, soda ash operating rates climbed to 77.55% while caustic soda stocks remain up 43.6% YoY.

#Petrochemicals #ChlorAlkali #Chemicals

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📉 $CTVA (Corteva) slides 24.3% to $9.19 after cutting its FY26 outlook on its Q3 call. Latin America organic sales plunged 31% on Brazil pricing & volume headwinds, overshadowing 19% volume growth in North America.

#Agchem #Corteva #Earnings

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🇮🇳 Industrial Gases M&A: $LINDEINDIA approves 100% cash acquisition of Airtech Cryogenic Gases for ₹111.20 Cr. No regulatory approvals needed; deal expected to close within 8 weeks, expanding its industrial & medical gases footprint.

#LindeIndia #IndustrialGases #MA

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Navin Fluorine’s new Surat HFC unit begins commercial operations
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Galaxy Surfactants and LG Electronics to co-develop greener cleaning solutions
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Afton Chemical breaks ground on Maharashtra plant for driveline and industrial additives
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BASF commissions $1-bn Geismar plant, nearly doubling its MDI capacity
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H. B. Fuller to close seven sites as it moves to trim manufacturing network to 55 by 2030
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From indigenous membranes to community water security: Recent deployment experience of CSIR-CSMCRI
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Indian Institute of Coal Gasification: The next step in India’s long-term energy security
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The average that lies!
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🛢️ Feedstock Watch: Brent crude eases to $92.02/bbl while US natural gas holds near $3.35/MMBtu on warm November weather. Meanwhile, US FDA revokes methylene chloride, EDC & TCE uses in food dye extraction effective Jan 11, 2027.

#Petrochemicals #Regulation #Feedstocks

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🔬 Indian R&D Milestone: $PIIND (PI Industries) plans to launch 2 new proprietary agrochemical molecules in the next 5 years, building on Pioxaniliprole—India's first indigenously discovered insecticide.

#Agchem #PIIndustries #SpecialtyChemicals

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🔄 Portfolio Focus: $BASF agrees to sell its global mining solutions business—including its Ireland site & ~140 employees—to French specialty chemical maker SNF, continuing its Performance Chemicals strategic streamlining. Deal expected to close in 2027.

#Chemicals #BASF #MA

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GAIL subsidiary commissions PTA plant at Mangalore
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thyssenkrupp nucera commissions chlor-alkali plant for Kutch Chemical
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GACL breaks ground on new phosphoric acid plant
https://t.co/rg0usttQYB

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CBC India to bring Indmark’s square fibre drums to Indian pharma customers
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Battenfeld-Cincinnati breaks ground on Vienna extruder plant modernisation
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FluoRok raises $30-mn to scale HF-free fluorochemical manufacturing
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