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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.

The Troy Corp. manufacturing facility in Newark, NJ, has been awarded the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection Stewardship Award.

ST. PAUL, MN - H.B. Fuller Co. has completed the acquisition of the majority of the assets of privately held Egymelt, a manufacturer and marketer of hot-melt and specialty water-based