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RPM International Inc. announced that unusually strong performance in its prior-year first quarter dampened comparative results for the fiscal 2015 first quarter that ended August 31, 2014, but that the company is maintaining its full-year earnings guidance for fiscal 2015, which was issued July 28, 2014.

BASF India Limited inaugurated its large-scale chemical production complex at Dahej in Gujarat, India. With a project cost of approximately €150 million, the site represents BASF’s single-largest investment in India.

Protex International announced two acquisitions that strengthen the company’s position in the specialty additives and electronic chemistry industries.  

Rheology is the science of the flow and deformation behavior of all kinds of materials, and a new knowledge and information platform “World of Rheology” by Anton Paar is exclusively focused on this topic.

Clariant has inaugurated new laboratory facilities in Shah Alam, Malaysia, for the oil services and pigments businesses.

In addition to its production capacity of about 10,000 tonnes per year out of the Cassano, Italy, Biosuccinium™ plant, Reverdia announced at the European Forum for Industrial Biotechnology (EFIB) that it is now licensing Biosuccinium.

AkzoNobel has launched the latest edition of its annual global study of color trends, providing added impetus for the company's recently launched Human Cities initiative, which has color as one of its main pillars.

Huntsman Corp. has completed the acquisition of the Performance Additives and Titanium Dioxide (TiO₂) businesses of Rockwood Holdings Inc.

Zochem, a subsidiary of Horsehead Holding Corp., has implemented a Customer Resource Management System (CRM).

By June 2015, U.S. chemical manufacturers and importers will be required to comply with new U.S. OSHA Hazard Communication regulations with adoption of the Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals (GHS).