Grupo Antolin, which uses polyurethane extensively in car interior components, generated sales of EUR 1.2bn in Q3 2019.

Trelleborg is cutting its business areas to three from five and looking hard at performance in a reorganisation scheme, unveiled on 4 December.

Passenger vehicle production in China was 2.3m units in November 2019. This is a 2.0% fall compared with November 2018, according to consultants LMC Automotive.

China’s appliance heavyweight Gree started a new 2.5m/year refrigerator project at its Industrial Park here in mid November. 
 

Icynene-Lapolla has added a new low-pressure, low-density, two-component spray polyurethane foam to its portfolio.

Automotive retail sales in the US are likely to be 1.18m units in November 2019.  This is a 1.2% rise compared with November 2018, according to consultants JD Power and LMC Automotive.

A team from Covestro and RWTH Aachen were finalists in the Deutscher Zukunftsprei, the German President's prize by  Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmer in late November.

BASF broke ground on its $10 bn verbund site here on 23 November. When complete it will be BASF’s third largest worldwide following Ludwigshafen, Germany, and Antwerp, Belgium.

Sheela Foam, India's only publicly traded flexible foam producer, generated operating income of INR 4.97 bn ($69.5 m) in the second quarter of 2019.