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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced that it will formally designate five known or probable carcinogens as High-Priority Substances (HPS) that will undergo a risk evaluation under the nation’s chemical safety law, the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA). 

The global chemical company OQ Chemicals has sold its Dutch esters plant in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, to Perstorp Group.

OQ Chemicals announced the company will increase prices for certain carboxylic acid products effective Jan. 1, 2025, or as contracts allow.

Specialty chemicals provider Nouryon has completed the capacity expansion for organic peroxides at its manufacturing facility in Ningbo, China.

Mitsui Chemicals Inc. announced that affiliate Kumho Mitsui Chemicals Inc. began operations in late September at additional production facilities for methylene diphenyl diisocyanate (MDI).

The continued collaboration highlights the commitment of both companies to providing products with a reduced product carbon footprint. 

BASF announced it will end the production of adipic acid, cyclododecanone (CDon) and cyclopentanone (CPon) at its site in Ludwigshafen, Germany. 

OQ Chemicals announced that due to current market dynamics, the company will increase prices for certain products produced in Bay City, Texas.

Together, Dow and Freepoint Eco-Systems are building a recycling system that converts plastic waste into valuable materials and fosters a circular economy for plastics in North America. 

The force majeure was initially declared due to a disruption at a raw material supplier’s synthesis gas plant at the end of February 2024.