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The Dow Chemical Co. has reached agreements with Rohm and Haas and certain of its shareholders that permit Dow to close the acquisition on substantially altered financial terms.

The Sherwin-Williams Co. has closed a definitive agreement to acquire Altax Sp. zo.o., Poznan, Poland.

Heucotech LTD of Fairless Hills, PA, has expanded its lab facilities with the addition of equipment to provide cyclic/prohesion and salt spray testing to support its NAFTA-based customers and Heubach’s Heucophos Anti-Corrosive product line.

New Brook International Inc. (NBI), Wyckoff, NJ, is now the U.S. representative for Pigmentan Ltd. of Ramat Gan, Israel, and its full line of environmentally friendly, anti-corrosive pigments.

Vicinity Manufacturing™ now provides immediate integration with external data collection systems such as bar coding and warehouse management.

Troy Corp. has announced that all Biocide Product Directive (BPD) dossiers for its actives sold within the EU have been submitted on schedule.

DKSH, Zurich, Switzerland, has acquired Dasico A/S, Birkerod, Denmark, a specialty chemicals distributor to the Scandinavian countries.

George Tirpak died on Jan. 19, 2009, in Fort Meyers, FL. He was 72 years old.

PRA is offering a two-day conference and mini-exhibition, “Measurement & Testing of Coatings,” May 12-13, 2009, in Birmingham, UK.

Cook Composites and Polymers (CCP), has announced its 2009 CCP University class schedule.