China-Russia Amur 2.7-million-tonne PE/PP complex to start up this summer – Global Corporate News Digest, 17 Jun 2026

The Competitive Map

Eastman raises amines prices from July 15 - a read-through for India's amines majors

China-Russia Amur 2.7-million-tonne PE/PP complex to start up this summer

Bangladesh doubles PVC and PET import duties - a competitiveness signal for India

A distant Gulf skirmish squeezes the world's rubber - and India's tyre chain feels it

Banks have poured $250 billion into petrochemicals - a financing-risk lens for India's expansion

Turkey fines tyre majors $78.5 million for price-fixing - a competition-policy signal for India's tyre market

Deals & Strategy Shifts

Sumitomo Chemical restructures around semiconductor materials growth

Westlake buys an insolvent 380,000-tonne German PVC plant; Turkey's SynPet clears a EUR 300m Antwerp recycling plant

The Materials Frontier

Evonik opens its first Asian AEM hydrogen-membrane centre in Shanghai

Audi picks Mitsubishi Chemical's bio-based DURABIO for the new Q3 - a cue for India's auto-materials shift

BASF and Avient put PPSU into a next-generation baby bottle - a high-performance materials marker

Daicel and Wacoal showcase new engineering-polymer applications in lubricants and automotive interiors

Cibus wins an EU gene-editing ruling and FMC-Corteva expand a new herbicide - signals for India's agrochem chain