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The Specialty Additives business of Solutia Inc. recently presented its 2007 North American Distributor of the Year award to Howard Guild, President of Dowd and Guild Inc., San Ramon, CA.

The Eastman Chemical Co. has completed the sale of its European PET and PTA assets to Indorama.

Holliday Pigments has ramped up production of its ultramarine pink, delivering triple the capacity to its global customer base.

START-IT magazine recently ranked Deacom Inc., producer of the DEACOM Integrated Accounting and Enterprise Resource Planning Software System, among the top emerging technology providers for the manufacturing marketplace in its 2008 START-IT 125 list.

H.B. Fuller Co. has announced that it will establish a regional lab in Shanghai as part of its five-year strategic plan.

The partners in the Tiwest joint venture - Tronox Western Australia Pty. Ltd., a subsidiary of Tronox Inc., and Yalgoo Minerals Pty. Ltd., a subsidiary of Exxaro Resources Limited - have announced plans for the expansion of the Tiwest titanium dioxide (TiO2) pigment plant in Kwinana, Australia.

Vertec BioSolvents has announced that its project, “Biosolvents for Coatings, Resins and Biobased Materials,” won a major two-year grant from the Department of Energy (DOE).

United Gilsonite Laboratories named two Executive Salesmen at its 2008 National Sales Meeting held in Stuart, FL.

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. has announced that it will directly sell its microbalances, digital recording balances, thermogravimetric analyzers and dynamic contact angle analyzers through its subsidiaries in Austria, the Benelux region, France, Germany and the UK.

Soliant LLC has been awarded the Global Plastics Environmental Conference (GPEC®) 2008 Achievement Award for “Enabling Technologies in Processes and Procedures” for developing Fluorex® bright film.