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Troy Corp., Florham Park, NJ, has won the Ringier Technology Innovation Award for Additives in China’s coatings industry.

Oxea, a leading global supplier of oxo intermediates and oxo derivatives, reported an earnings increase for the first quarter of 2013 compared with the first quarter of 2012.

PPG Industries has completed its previously announced acquisition of certain assets of Deft Incorporated, a privately-owned specialty coatings company based in Irvine, CA.

Smithers Rapra is offering a new quarterly peer-reviewed journal, Applied Polymer Composites.

The Adhesive and Sealant Council (ASC) has won three awards for its ascouncil.org website in the 2013 Hermes Creative Awards competition, sponsored by the Association for Marketing and Communications Professionals (AMCP).

KODA Distribution Group, a leading specialty chemical distributor, has acquired EW Kaufmann, headquartered in Bristol, PA.

PPG Industries has started manufacturing protective and marine coatings (PMC) at the company’s facility in Ostrów Wielkopolski, Poland.

H.B. Fuller Co., St. Paul, MN, has signed an agreement to purchase adhesives company Plexbond Quimica, S/A, a provider of chemical polyurethane specialties and polyester resins that operates a manufacturing facility in Curitiba, Brazil.

Paint and coating manufacturer Quest Specialty Chemicals, Charleston, SC, has appointed Marjorie (Marj) Shymske President of Quest Construction Products, a wholly owned subsidiary of Quest Specialty Chemicals.

Dymax Corp. has appointed Marufur Rahim to the position of R&D Manager.