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Global chemical company Oxea has successfully increased its manufacturing capabilities for syngas at its Bay City, TX, plant by 10 percent.

ICL Performance Products, a specialty phosphate producer, has acquired Halox, a division of Hammond Group Inc.

Evonik Industries announced plans to build world-scale plants for producing isophorone and isophorone diamine in Shanghai, China.

WACKER has received Frost & Sullivan’s New Product Innovation Award for its GENIOSIL® product class.

Celanese Corp., a global technology and specialty materials company, announced an agreement to acquire certain assets from Ashland Inc.

DSM Coating Resins, a business unit of Royal DSM N.V., has outlined plans to align the organization to focus on its core coating and graphic arts resins markets.

Shell MDS and Evonik Industries signed a six-year contract for Evonik Industries to continue as Shell MDS’ distributor of Shell GTL Sarawax waxes (FT waxes) in Europe. Evonik will produce and sell modified GTL waxes globally with the brand name VESTOWAX®.

Clariant announced it has completed the squeeze-out of Süd-Chemie minority shareholders.

The Chairman of BASF’s Board of Executive Directors Dr. Kurt Bock, Vice Chairman Dr. Martin Brudermüller and CFO Dr. Hans-Ulrich Engel outlined how BASF plans to strengthen its position as a leading chemical company.

LANXESS Corp., one of the world’s largest producers of iron oxide and chromium oxide pigments, announced that two of its North American distributors for Bayferrox® inorganic pigments will expand their territories, beginning January 1, 2012.