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Clariant GmbH’s Pigments & Additives Division announced a joint-venture agreement with Songwon Color of South Korea.

PPG Industries plans to sell its headquarters complex, PPG Place, to Market Associates, an affiliate of the Hillman Co.

The Sherwin-Williams said its Thompson Co. subsidiary has launched its biggest television advertising campaign yet.

Minerals Technologies plans to build a manufacturing facility in Brookhaven, MS, for the production of specialty precipitated calcium carbonate, with start-up of the facility expected during the second quarter of 2000.

Johnson Matthey Pigment and Dispersions, Fairfield, OH, has relocated from Jacksonville, FL, to Fairfield.

BatchMaster Software has appointed two new sales and implementation offices for its software products line: Mann & Associates and JAAS Systems Ltd.

Ruco Polymers is launching a new business group, Solid Resins, by merging its powder resin and curative business with the toner resin division operated by Sybron Chemicals.

M.F. Cachat has been appointed sales representative for Kerr-McGee Chemical LLC’s rutile and anatase titanium dioxide product lines.

Eastman Chemical and Lawter International announced an agreement under which Eastman will acquire Lawter for approximately $500 million in cash and debt.

The French industrial-minerals company IMETAL has acquired English China Clays for $1.2 billion.