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Dealmaking & Boardroom Moves

Mitsui buys Ultradent for $900 million: a chemicals major puts its growth bet on teeth

Cosmo First elevates Piyush Gupta to run its speciality chemicals bet

Industry Under Pressure

Hengli's sanctions pivot: China's 400,000 bpd independent goes shopping in West Africa

Dow's quiet 4,500: over 100 more jobs go at Seadrift as the workforce reset rolls on

Freepoint shutters America's flagship pyrolysis plant: chemical recycling's reckoning goes public

Greener, Circular Chemistry

PureCycle and Innovia crack 40% recycled content in white BOPP: the candy-aisle film goes circular

ARLANXEO goes all-in on certified chlorine: chloroprene rubber's carbon footprint drops 20%

The Battery-Hydrogen Frontier

Aquatech to build North America's largest direct lithium extraction unit in Saskatchewan

Watching platinum rust in real time: DESY's X-ray breakthrough targets the cost of hydrogen

Digital R&D & Scale-Up

The chemical industry's AI-lab moment gets its own conference: AUTOMA Chem 2026 in Berlin

Xytel India pitches modular pilot plants as the scale-up shortcut for the energy transition

Tyre Wars Heat Up

Giti breaks into the global tyre top ten: fastest-growing brand at $1.47 billion

The Regulator Knocks

Haryana pollution board moves on Ballabhgarh rubber units: the CTO crackdown reaches the NCR belt

From The Lab

A polyurea coating that survives 1,800 hours of UV: the outdoor metal-protection gap closes

Bentonite clay gives starch packaging a 30-month shelf life: bio-coatings' ageing problem meets a cheap fix