Disperse-dye intermediates spike in China, tightening the global cost base – Global Corporate News Digest, 13 Jul 2026

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Disperse-dye intermediates spike in China, tightening the global cost base

Acrylic acid slides across India, China and Europe even as propylene firms

Xingfa and Wanhua lock up a large new phosphate mine in China

Malaysia's rubber output rises even as stocks and exports fall

Iran conflict lifts naphtha and resin costs, forcing a plastics rethink in Japan

CAPACITY & EXPANSION

China lines up a wave of new EVA and POE capacity for the second half

Global ammonia investment pivots to green projects and the India-Japan corridor

Bodo Moller Chemie opens an aviation-chemicals warehouse in Bengaluru

DEALS & CORPORATE MOVES

Akzo Nobel confirms an unsolicited approach for its decorative-paints arm

Saint-Gobain buys Canada's Xypex to widen its construction-chemicals range

POLICY & REGULATION

EU sets rules for counting chemically recycled PET in bottles

HEALTH & SUSTAINABILITY

A new study questions the fungicide fluazinam over brain-development risk