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With its acquisition of the rheology business of Rockwood Holdings Inc., ALTANA's BYK Additives & Instruments division has added Frank B.J. Wright to the company’s management team.

Archroma has officially launched as a newly formed global color and specialty chemicals company.

Clariant has acquired the Organic Pigment business of Jiangsu Multicolor Fine Chemical Co. Ltd. (JMC), based in Jiangsu Province, China.

Two Swedish scientists have won the 2013 AkzoNobel Science Award in recognition of their research in the fields of materials and surface engineering.

The specialty chemicals group ALTANA has completed its acquisition of the rheology business of Rockwood Holdings Inc.

KODA Distribution Group (KDG) has hired Joel W. Jones as its new Chief Commercial Officer.

Malvern Instruments Ltd., Malvern, UK, has acquired nanoparticle characterization company NanoSight Ltd., Amesbury, UK. The acquisition was completed on September 27, 2013.

For the second time in just over a year, Benjamin Moore, Montvale, NJ, is looking for a new CEO.

Iranian researchers from the Institute for Color Science and Technology have produced a new type of coating that exhibits anticorrosion properties by using zinc oxide nanoparticles.

At the announcement of its second-quarter results in July, AkzoNobel announced that it had identified further efficiency and cost saving measures that would require €120 million of restructuring charges in the second half of 2013.