- Stimulated by market sentiment improved and rising polypropylene prices in the Chinese market, the spot price of propylene in the Northeast Asian market rebounded, breaking the sharp decline since the beginning of November.
- According to an unnamed source quoted by Reuters, Clariant has been seeking support from Deutsche Bank to find suitable buyers for its pigment business. The estimated value of this business is close to $821 million.
- PPG announced in Pittsburgh, USA, that it will further increase its investment in automated color grading systems for automotive parts and decorative parts (APAD) paints and related coating products.
- January 10, 2019 - Martin Brudermueller, Chairman of the Executive Board of BASF Europe, and Lin Shaochun, Vice Governor of Guangdong Province, signed a framework agreement at Ludwigshafen.
- On January 8, Shaanxi Yulin Energy Group Co., Ltd. started the ceremony for the start-up ceremony of an annual production of 1.2 million tons of coal-based ethylene glycol first phase 400,000 tons in Qingshui Industrial Park, Yushen Industrial Zone.
- Focusing on building a modern economic system, the "Internet +" model is a new form of development at the moment.
- Over the past 12 years, Asian Paints have succeeded in overturning traditional norms.
- The latest interim report shows that Demei Chemical achieved operating income of 126,309,364.08, net profit of 36,939,900, an increase of 4.48% year-on-year, and earnings per share of 0.0881.
- The three-day Japan High Performance Plastics Exhibition was held at the Makuhari International Convention and Exhibition Center from December 5th to 7th. Sinopec debut
- The international methanol market continued to fall, and domestic futures prices also fell again and again.
- According to the statistics of the National Bureau of Statistics of China, from January to October 2018, the coating output of China's above-scale coatings enterprises reached 14.3944 million tons, a year-on-year increase of 3.6%.
- Rating agency Moody's Investors Service estimates in its recent report that chemical demand growth in 2019 will be less than 2018
- According to the MRC ScanPlast report, Russian polypropylene (PP) production fell by 2.6% year-on-year in January-November.
- On December 20th, The High-end Chemical Industry Development Promotion Association was established in Jinan. Li Shousheng, president of the China Petroleum and Chemical Industry Federation, attended the meeting.
- The new liquefied gas evaporation system technical transformation project of Yangzi Petrochemical Ethylene Plant has been put into use recently, and the daily output of ethylene is over 2,300 tons.