BASF is spending €40 million on seeds because the next food crisis starts in the soil – Global Corporate News Digest, 17 Apr 2026

Sustainability & Green Innovation

Plastic foam is finally meeting its match thanks to a Finnish cellulose startup nobody saw coming

UPM and Felix Schoeller just built a chocolate wrapper that could make plastic packaging obsolete

BASF is spending €40 million on seeds because the next food crisis starts in the soil

Global Coatings & Industrials

PPG quietly hit $15.9 billion in sales while raising dividends for 54 straight years

Credit Ratings & Corporate Risk

Sarjay Chemicals has ghosted its rating agency for over a year and investors should be worried

Uttam Plastomers got downgraded after ignoring three rounds of requests for basic financial information

Government & Regulatory

Indiajust appointed a new Bhopal gas tragedy commissioner four decades after the disaster

Corporate Disclosures & Boardroom

Polychem fought a BSE fine all the way to the top and somehow walked away without paying a rupee

Apollo Tyres is disputing a customs penalty over an argument about how to classify its own products

Sudarshan Chemical just had its top-tier Crisil rating reaffirmed and barely anyone noticed

Rain Industries filed a full sustainability report but the real story is buried inside the numbers

Himadri Speciality Chemical's board meets next week and a dividend announcement could be coming

Garware Hi-Tech Films made a regulatory disclosure that every investor in the stock should read

Time Technoplast repaid its commercial paper exactly on time and that discipline tells you everything

Epigral just renewed three independent directors for five more years in a single circular resolution