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The Supervisory Board of the specialty chemicals company ALTANA has appointed Martin Babilas to become the Chief Executive Officer.

IGM Resins has acquired the photoinitiator business of Lamberti.

Axalta Coating Systems commissioned its new waterborne manufacturing facility in Wuppertal, Germany, nine months after ground was broken on the project.

At the beginning of May, the Chemistry of Advanced Materials council of the Top Sector Chemistry gave the green light for nine new projects in the Biobased Performance Materials (BPM) program. Wageningen UR Food & Biobased Research, together with 25 partners, will be focusing on materials made from plant-based raw materials.

Evonik Industries, one of the world's leading suppliers of methacrylate chemistry products, doubled its production capacities for VISIOMER^® MAAH (methacrylic anhydride) at its site in Worms, Germany, in 2015.

The Lubrizol Corp.'s Performance Coatings business announced the addition of new hyperdispersant capacity at its Huddersfield, UK, facility.

BASF is expanding its production capacity for about 20 specialty amines at its Verbund site in Ludwigshafen, Germany.

AkzoNobel has joined SEAFRONT (Synergistic Fouling Control Technologies), a project within the Seventh Framework Program of the European Commission, to develop environmentally friendly fouling-control coatings for boats, ships, tidal power plants and other aquatic installations.

AkzoNobel Specialty Finishes has opened a new Design Center in Offenbach, Germany, the business’ fourth specialist facility.

Janssen PMP, a division of Janssen Pharmaceutica NV, announced that its active substance ECONEA^® is recommended for inclusion into Annex I of the EU Biocidal Products Directive (BPD) 98/8/EC for Product Type 21: Antifouling Products.