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The Dow Chemical Co. Foundation (Dow) has donated $80,000 to the Alsip Fire Department in Alsip, IL.

The Center for the Polyurethanes Industry (CPI) of the American Chemistry Council (ACC) has announced the eight finalists for the 2008 Polyurethane Innovation Awards.

BASF has been recognized as the leading chemical company in the Dow Jones Sustainability World Index.

Rockwood Color Pigments & Services Division has announced a new distribution network in the United States and Canada for the full line of Rockwood Pigments products, including Elementis’ pigments products.

Dow Epoxy, a business unit of The Dow Chemical Co. (Dow), has reached a significant milestone in its plans to build a 100,000 MTPA liquid epoxy resin (LER) plant and a 150,000 MTPA glycerine-to-epichlorohydrin (GTE) plant at Shanghai Chemical Industry Park (SCIP) by the end of 2010 – the approval of environmental impact assessments (EIA) by China’s Ministry of Environmental Protection.

The Hydraulic Institute (HI) has named Mary K. Maul as its new Director of Knowledge and Education.

Univar has sold its Mozel packaging business and facility in Columbia, IL, to EMCO Chemical Distributors Inc.

PERSTORP, Sweden - Perstorp, the Swedish chemicals Group, has received legal approval for the takeover of the acquired activities within Rhodia Organics and Lyondell Chimie. The acquisition is the sixth

Acme-Hardesty Co. has named Jeremy Day of Dallas, GA, as its Southeastern Regional Sales Manager.

MetoKote Corp. Inc. has hired Roger Cook as Strategic Account Manager representing MetoKote’s Deere and Co. business. Cook will be based in Lansing, MI.