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The Performance Monomers business of The Dow Chemical Co. (Dow) announced a 15-percent increase in capacity for the production of 2-ethylhexyl acrylate at its Hahnville, LA, facility.

Croda Inc. announced the official opening of its new facility for the production of lubricant esters at its Atlas Point manufacturing site in New Castle, DE.

AP Plastics LLC, now an affiliate of Adhesives Packaging Specialties, is a recognized distributor for Sulzer of Salem, NH.

Color-Logic has named MSM Color as its manufacturers’ representative.

AkzoNobel Performance Additives has appointed Archway Sales Inc., St. Louis, MO.

Perstorp has doubled production capacity of its Capa™ caprolactone plant in Warrington, England.

Caterpillar Inc. has selected PPG Industries’ industrial coatings business as the sole heavy-duty equipment coatings supplier for a new motor grader assembly plant in North Little Rock, AK.

Klaus Engel, Chairman of the Executive Board of Evonik Industries, has laid the foundation stones for two research and development centers at the company’s Essen, Germany, site.

JNS Smithchem LLC has been appointed the sales representative covering northern New Jersey, New York and the New England states for Keim Additec Surface GmbH and Silcona GmbH.

Arkema Coating Resins has announced a new trademark that will be applied to the company’s waterborne emulsion polymer products sold worldwide.