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AkzoNobel announces an Extraordinary General Meeting (EGM) to be held on September 6, 2022.

Huntsman Corporation has published its 2021 corporate sustainability report titled, “Brightening the Horizon: Enabling Sustainability,” on its website at Huntsman.com/sustainability. The interactive HTML report highlights many of the ways Huntsman products offer critical solutions to today’s most pressing sustainability challenges.

Built for use on SUVs, Hankook Dynapro HPX is a touring all-season tire designed to provide refined handling, extra comfort and low noise throughout all seasons. With improved mileage performance, it can drive the longest distance among Hankook’s SUV products.

WACKER will be premiering its novel ELASTOSIL® LR 3078 product series at K 2022 International Trade Fair for Plastics and Rubber. These self-adhesive liquid silicone rubber grades cure extremely fast and establish a firm bond with the thermoplastic polycarbonate without the need to pretreat its surface. ELASTOSIL® LR 3078 was designed for two-component injection molding and enables cost-effective large-scale production of multicomponent parts, such as those needed in medical technology and the automotive industry. This year’s K show will take place in Düsseldorf, Germany, from October 19 to 26

. The Munich-based chemical company generated sales of €2,174.2 million in the reporting quarter (Q2 2021: €1,501.0 million), up by 45 percent year over year. Relative to the preceding quarter (€2,076.2 million), sales were up by 5 percent, benefiting from product-mix and volume effects, as well as from the year-over-year rise in the US dollar. All four business divisions contributed to this sales growth. Polysilicon performed particularly well, with sales increasing by 68 percent year over year, due to higher prices. The two chemical divisions – WACKER SILICONES and WACKER POLYMERS – each grew by more than 40 percent and demand was particularly strong, for example, for products used in adhesives and industrial coatings. Business in biotechnological products and fine chemicals also showed solid growth, with sales up by 16 percent.

NEXEN TIRE announced that it has received the General Motors Corporation (GM) Supplier Quality Excellence Award for the 2021 calendar year. The tire manufacturer was chosen for their exceptional performance when working with GM. NEXEN TIRE has received the award for eight consecutive years.

Dow announced an agreement with French recycling company Valoregen to contribute to building the largest single hybrid recycling site in France, to be owned and operated by Valoregen.

Brenntag has become the exclusive distributor of Tolsa’s Functional Additives Business in the United States and Canada.
The product portfolio includes ADINS® Flame Retardancy, ADINS® Clean, ADINS® Protection and can be utilized in the Coatings & Construction, Polymers, Rubber, and Wire and Cable industries.

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