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Cologne – Speciality chemicals company LANXESS is selling its chrome chemicals business to Brother Enterprises, a Chinese leather chemicals producer. Both companies on August 12, 2019, signed a respective agreement.

Archroma, a global leader in colour and specialty chemicals towards sustainable solutions, has recently launched at the ITMA exhibition its new Helizarin® LTC New liq, a formaldehyde-free* low temperature curing binder for pigment printing on all kinds of fibres.

Praj Industries has signed a Construction License Agreement (CLA) with Gevo Inc, USA dated April 4, 2019, to commercialise technology for the production of isobutanol using sugary-based feedstocks, such as juice, syrup and molasses.

GHCL, India’s leading chemical and textile company, posted net revenue of Rs 3,385 crore in the year ended March 2019, registering a growth of 16 per cent compared to net revenue of rs 2917 crore in the previous financial year.

Speciality chemicals company LANXESS has successfully completed a debottlenecking project resulting in a 15 per cent increase in global production capacity of its Additin RC 4000 series of corrosion inhibition additives.

China’s textile industry is accounting for over 60 per cent of the world chemical and synthetic fibre production, and it is second in cotton production, says Avinash Mayekar of Suvin Advisors.