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Celanese Emulsions, a division of Celanese Canada, has acquired all of the business interests of Nacan Products Ltd., a subsidiary of National Starch and Chemical Co.

S.P. Morell and Company, a specialty chemicals distributor and manufacturer's representative of raw materials to the coating, ink and adhesive industries, was recently appointed by Eckart America to represent its metallic and pearlescent pigment lines in New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania.

Buckman Laboratories has announced the creation of the Performance Chemicals Division and the appointment of Charles Carncross as its vice president.

- At an inauguration ceremony held in March in Newport, Del., Ciba Specialty Chemicals reinforced its dedication to the coatings industry in the NAFTA region by opening a new technical center.

ESA Biosciences, Inc., a subsidiary of Magellan Biosciences, Inc., has won the Silver Editors' Award at the 2005 Pittsburgh Conference and Exposition (PITTCON) for its breakthrough Corona Charged Aerosol Detector for HPLC.

BASF will invest $60 million in its Pasadena, Texas, site, just a year after acquiring the site from Sunoco.

Horiba Instruments, Inc., has entered into an exclusive distribution agreement for Dispersion Technology Inc.'s line of acoustic and electroacoustic particle size and zeta potential analyzers for the North and South American markets.

CB Mills has announced the appointment of two new representatives

Ciba Specialty Chemicals and the Liucheng Group have established the joint venture Zhejiang Ruicheng Effect Pigment Co., Ltd.

Reynolds Industries, Inc., announced that Clayton Equipment would represent the Reynolds' sales effort in Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas, Oklahoma and Mississippi.