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GHENT, Belguim – Taminco Inc. has selected Kurt Buyse to lead the company’s global Performance Products business unit. As Director, Buyse will lead a team dedicated to the development of

SANDEFJORD, Norway – Jotun, Sandefjord, Norway, reported that the company’s operating revenues and profits reached record levels in 2010, a result of volume increases in all of its segments and

WOODLAND PARK, NJ - Cytec Industries Inc. has completed the previously announced sale of its Building Block Chemicals business to an affiliate of H.I.G. Capital LLC for approximately $180 million,

HEERLEN, The Netherlands - Royal DSM announced that it will start a partnership with Kemrock Industries in India for the production of specialty composite resins in India. DSM and Kemrock

Univar has successfully completed the acquisition of the Quaron business in Belgium and the Netherlands.

ALTANA has signed an agreement to acquire Kometra Kunststoff-Modifikatoren und-Additiv GmbH.

Perstorp has, through its subsidiary Perstorp Polyols Inc., signed an agreement with Hercules Inc., a subsidiary of specialty chemicals company Ashland Inc.

The Munich-based chemicals group WACKER can supply significantly greater volumes of VINNOL surface coating resins as of January 2011.

AkzoNobel has announced a strategic investment in a new powder coating manufacturing plant in Apodaca, Mexico, a suburb of Monterrey, Mexico.

H.B. Fuller Co. has strengthened its foothold in Turkey by entering into a joint venture with Burak Özberk, its longstanding agent there.