China’s system house Hongbaoli expects its unaudited net profit in 2019 to jump by 203% to CNY 88m ($13m) compared with 2018.

he number of US building permits issued in 2019 was almost unchanged at 16.03 m.

Washington, DC – The recently signed Phase 1 US China trade agreement significantly lowers the bar for US companies to pursue intellectual property claims in China.

Automotive seating giant, Magna is projecting a 4.8% growth in seating sales to between $6.3-6.8bn by the end of 2022. The company reports in US $. 
 

Concentrol has opened a new sampling laboratory at its headquarters north of Barcelona.

Maps of many European and North American flexible and rigid foam production sites, these are now available to purchase.

In December 2019 the US imported 1.48m mattresses. This is up by 9% or 128,000 more than were imported in December 2018.

Tayho Advanced Materials is forming a joint venture to build a 15kT/year differentiated heavy-denier polyurethane elastane in Yantai, Shandong.

A tanker spilt Covestro isocyanates onto a state highway near the company's New Martinsville plant in the evening of Sunday 5 January.