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The Dow Chemical Co. (Dow) and Petrochemical Industries Co. (PIC), a wholly owned subsidiary of Kuwait Petroleum Corp. (KPC), have signed the Joint Venture Formation Agreement and other key definitive agreements regarding the formation of K-Dow Petrochemicals, a 50/50 joint venture that will be a global supplier of petrochemicals and plastics.

Ideal Manufacturing & Sales Corp. has announced that Oner M. Onergil of Alpha Engineered Process Equipment, St. Louis, MO, is the winner of the company’s fifth annual Sales Associate of the Year award.

PPG Industries has announced that Charles F. Kahle II, Vice President, Coatings Research and Development, is taking on additional responsibility as Chief Technology Officer for PPG.

The Rohm and Haas Powder Coatings business will discontinue its distribution relationship with ChemPoint on Dec. 23, 2008.

Philippe Carabin has been named Chief Executive Officer (Président du Directoire) of Eliokem International.

The Management Board and Supervisory Board of ALTANA AG has announced that it supports the offer of SKion GmbH to acquire further shares of the company.

PQ Corp. has appointed Dowd and Guild Inc. to represent its Silcron product line for the western United States.

ReNew Systems Group (RSG) has chosen Vicinity Manufacturing™ software to streamline business operations in its Eldorado, KS, headquarters.

Inc. magazine has ranked Powder-X Coating Systems number 2,185 in its annual ranking of the 5,000 fastest-growing private companies in the country.

DuBois Chemicals, Cincinnati, OH, working with ACT Test Panel Technologies, Hillsdale, MI, has produced a new “standard” paint pretreatment and metal surface finishing test panel.