Covestro is delaying further work on the expansion of its MDI plant in Texas. The MDI-500 project will be paused for 18-24 months.

The number of US building permits issued in 2019 was almost unchanged from 2018, 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.

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

Tempur Sealy has raised $184,000 for pancreatic cancer research via its 10^th annual Rest Test.

The House of Representatives has passed the Safer Occupancy Furniture Flammability Act, which would make California’s Technical Bulletin 117-2013 a federal flammability standard.

Battelle has been awarded a grant by the US Department of Energy to develop a process to create polyols from coal. 

Nike generated $21.0 bn in sales in the first half of 2019. This is higher by 9% than the same period in 2018.