- Birla Carbon, a manufacturer and supplier of carbon-based solutions, has announced the inauguration of its first Asia Post Treatment (APT) Plant in India
- OCSiAl opened its first European production facility in Serbia. The new facility is dedicated to producing TUBALL™ nanotubes and nanotube-based products
- On November 11, Dawn Holdings released its asset restructuring plan for acquiring Dawn Titanium. Dawn Holdings will acquire 100% of Dawn Titanium's shares and raise matching funds by issuing shares and paying cash. Dawn Holdings' announcement shows that the price of shares issued in this transaction is 8.37 yuan per share
- Sumitomo Chemical published an announcement on their plan to cut down production capacity on general-purpose resins, applied mainly to food packaging films and other products such as films for food packaging, because of the decline in domestic sales
- The Spanish Federation of Chemical Companies (Feique) put out these statistics: In 2024, chemical sales in Spain are expected to rise 4.8% over 2023, amounting to 86.5 billion euros, whereas production is expected to rise 7.1% over 2023
- On November 8, 2024, the Pengjiang Branch of Jiangmen Municipal Ecological Environment Bureau released the pre-approval announcement of the environmental impact assessment document of Jiangmen Asus Technology Co., Ltd.
- "Top Cerarelease IG-1" developed by Japan's Okuno Manufacturing Co., Ltd. is a comprehensive non-pollution barrier coating that does not contain Class 2 chemical/polymerized smoke-based substances (PFAS) positive list system for food utensil coatings` `Top Cerarelease FG -1"
- Dainippon Printing Co., Ltd. has developed "DNP transparent vapor deposition film IB-FILM" using recycled and chemically recycled polyethylene terephthalate (PET) as raw material, which has the ability to block the passage of gases such as water vapor and oxygen.
- Recently, copper prices have shown a fluctuating and weak trend in the market outside China. In the early trading on Monday, the main 2412 contract of Shanghai copper futures fluctuated, and the decline in the market gradually narrowed, and then rebounded slightly
- Ecolectro announced the completion of a Series A round of $10.5 million, led by Toyota Ventures with the participation of Starshot Capital, DNX Ventures, Energy Revolution Ventures, New Climate Ventures, Banco Popular Impact Fund, and Techstars
- Faraday Future announces latest major progress, with its subsidiary Faraday X signing a product development and delivery agreement for a range of vehicles with a leading automaker
- Scientists in the United States have invented a new type of nano-coating that can be made into a very light coating using only a very small amount of material, only 0.4 grams per square meter, setting a record.
- According to October retail sales released on the 15th one local time by the U.S. Department of Commerce, month-on-month sales rose 0.4%, better than expected. Nevertheless, the 0.4% month-on-month growth in U.S.
- According to Statistics South Africa, the unemployment rate has decreased from 33.5% a quarter ago to 32.1% between July and September 2024-a reduction of 1.4 percentage points. This marked the first reduction in the unemployment figures in South Africa for 2024.
- The International Solar Alliance (ISA) has recently released a new publication, "Assessing the Readiness of African Countries for Green Hydrogen," which provides an in-depth analysis of four African countries