Bayer MaterialScience

Good Q3 performance in line with forecasts / EBITDA rises 44.5% year-on-year / Sales decline in PU segment

Canadian bio-succinic plant now at commercial scale / Margin prospects better than expected

Stake in MEGlobal sold to Equate as Kuwaiti ventures restructured / MEG plant to be built on US Gulf Coast / Options under review for agrochemicals unit / Plastics leads gains in Q3 volumes but lower prices and foreign exchange hit sales

Collaboration on development of bio-based TPUs / “Biosuccinum” for “Desmopan” applications in footwear and consumer electronics segments

Stock market debut goes smoothly / Shares initially gain 12% / Issue three times oversubscribed

Supply of PC resins for 3D printing materials / Cooperation with China's Polymaker

Former Bayer MaterialScience to make stock market debut on 2 October / Gross proceeds of EUR 2.5 bn targeted / Bayer group to become pure life science player

Exit from blue-chip stock index / Rubber woes put downward pressure on share price

Former Bayer MaterialScience business plans IPO in Q4 this year

Dennis McCullough appointed new CEO and president

US group sets up Mexican distribution joint venture with Grupo Solquim / “Platform for aggressive growth plans”

Bayer unveils new management team / Patrick Thomas will continue to lead the company

Second quarter losses fall as world's largest bio-succinic acid plant is completed / Commercial operation expected to begin in Q3 2015

Global demand expanding by 4.5% per year / PC and PA dominate market with highest growth rates / BCC Research study

Earnings at MaterialScience surge on higher demand and cost relief / Sales flat / Plans for separation of polymers sub-group “on schedule,” Dekkers said / Renaming in September

Exhibiting as Covestro at Fakuma / First time new name will be used / PC composites added to portfolio

TDI plant at Brunsbüttel to close in September / Conversion to MDI production by 2018?

China Engineering Thermoplastics June 2015: Feedstocks firm on the back of maintenance downtimes / Domestic notations fall across the board / Raw material prices likely to soften in July / Polymers expected to hold stable amid slight downward trend

New polycarbonate line in eastern China on stream / Phosgene-free processing technology from Germany's EPC Group

China Engineering Thermoplastics May 2015: Most feedstocks turn soft / Domestic ABS and PC prices firm / PA 6 trending soft while PA 6.6 points up / PMMA tumbles / Consumption levels stable / Little change expected in June

New reactor for CO2-to-polyols plant in place / Dream Production in the home stretch

Name change to Covestro from 1 September / “Colorful identity and positive vision”

Aircraft supplier acquires Pexco's aerospace division / Transaction worth USD 500m

Steffan Huber appointed president of Bayer MaterialScience's Greater China region

Good start to 2015 buoyed by lower euro / BMS lifts EBITDA by nearly 16% / Dekkers says polymers sub-group will earn full cost of capital this year / Flotation still on track