Mitsui Chemicals steers $900 million into US dental, away from commodity petrochemicals – Global Corporate News Digest, 15 Jul 2026

M&A & CORPORATE STRATEGY

South Korea opens a competition review of the Lotte-HD Hyundai Daesan merger

Olin-Huntsman merger clears a regulatory milestone in the US

Mitsui Chemicals steers $900 million into US dental, away from commodity petrochemicals

SUPPLY CHAINS & CAPACITY WATCH

Russia's Salavat petrochemical plant to restart within days after a drone strike

China's Ruiping Chemical scales up herbicide-intermediate output

Catalyxx wins a EUR 20 million grant for a European bio-alcohols plant

KBR and Indorama set a record ammonia-plant startup speed

SUSTAINABILITY & LIFE SCIENCES

Sweden's Nexam Chemical turns its first profit as recycling additives race ahead

Syngenta pushes into soil-carbon and biologicals with Groundwork BioAg

Evonik and evitria launch a protein-expression kit for biologics labs