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J.M. Huber Corp., through its Huber Engineered Materials (HEM) division, has reached an agreement to acquire the Martinswerk mineral flame retardants and specialty chemicals businesses of Albemarle Corp.

The Dow Chemical Co. has signed a definitive agreement to restructure the ownership of Dow Corning Corp.

Jotun announced the opening of a new marine and protective coatings factory outside Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

BASF is strengthening its global production network for pigments with two new investments.

The Shepherd Color Co. has partnered with LANSCO Colors as an official distributor for a portion of its business in North America.

Applied Minerals Inc., a leading global producer of halloysite clay, has expanded its distribution network through a new partnership with KODA Distribution Group (KDG).

The Dow Chemical Co. plans to complete a debottlenecking project at its Freeport, TX, facility to increase capacity for glycidyl methacrylate (GMA) in the second quarter of 2016.

BASF Corp. and Gabriel Performance Products LLC, a U.S.-based specialty chemical company, finalized a transaction transferring the Versamid^® trademark to Gabriel, and exclusively licensing the polyamide curing agent technology in the United States.

DuPont and The Dow Chemical Co. (Dow) announced that their boards of directors unanimously approved a definitive agreement under which the companies will combine in an all-stock merger of equals.

Solvay subsidiary Advanced Biochemical Thailand Co. Ltd. (ABT) has received certification from the Roundtable on Sustainable Biomaterials (RSB) for the production of Epicerol^®, a bio-based building block for renewable chemicals and resins.