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PPG Industries’ industrial coatings business recently held Styling Directions Surface Trend presentations at three top California art and design schools to present the latest color and design trends identified in the TRENDCAST^® Styling Directions 2015 toolkit.

Safic-Alcan, a leading specialty chemicals distributor, has acquired the distribution business of Chimsnab BG, a significant player in chemicals distribution in Bulgaria.

Industrial Physics ROW Holdings Inc. has acquired UK-based Ray-Ran Test Equipment Ltd.

Solvay has entered into a definitive merger agreement with U.S.-based Cytec to acquire 100 percent of its share capital for $75.25 per share in cash.

Q-Lab Corp. announced that 2015 marks the 10^th anniversary of its representative office Q-Lab China.

Maroon Group LLC has acquired 100 percent of the assets of D.B. Becker Co. Inc., Clinton, NJ, a distributor of specialty chemicals to the eastern United States.

Effective August 1, 2015, the U.S. legal entity Rhein Chemie Corp. has merged into its parent LANXESS Corp. as the business unit Rhein Chemie Additives.

As of July 1, the new company of Chemours Co. officially spun off from DuPont.

Specialty chemicals manufacturer HCS Group announced the acquisition of Shu-Chem Holdings Inc. (Shu-Chem), a family-owned company headquartered in Manvel, TX.

Christine Batten, Account Development Manager in the company-owned stores group of PPG Architectural Coatings, U.S. and Canada, visited Woodstock High School to present a $1,000 PPG Industries Foundation check to science faculty members Kelly Burke and Karen Zayance, along with charter members of the Women in Science and Engineering (WiSE) club they sponsor.