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Superior Materials Inc., Garden City, NY, announced that effective January 1, 2015, BASF Corp. will be expanding Superior Materials’ distribution responsibility for Attapulgite specialty additives into the Midwest region.

On December 1, Houston-based U.S. Zinc celebrated 65 years in the zinc products marketplace.

Verdezyne Inc., a privately held industrial biotechnology company focused on producing renewable chemicals, has reached an agreement with Bio-XCell Malaysia to construct Verdezyne’s first commercial-scale renewable chemicals manufacturing facility in Bio-XCell’s biotechnology and ecosystem park in Nusajaya, Iskandar, in southern Malaysia.

Novomer Inc., announced that Jowat AG, a supplier of industrial adhesives headquartered in Germany, is the first to commercially adopt Novomer’s new Converge^® polypropylene carbonate (PPC) polyols for use in polyurethane hot melt adhesive applications.

RISE Microscopy has been nominated for a 2015 Photonics Prism Award.

Vencorex is significantly expanding its capacity of isophorone diisocyanate (IPDI), with expansion of the monomer capacity taking place at the company’s Pont de Claix site in France.

Two ship owners are due to be awarded a combined total of almost $500,000 when the first claims resulting from a new carbon credits methodology developed by AkzoNobel and The Gold Standard Foundation are finalized next year.

The Valspar Corp. has completed the purchase of Madison Chemical Industries Inc., a coatings manufacturer headquartered in Ontario, Canada.

Lonza Inc. has appointed KODA Distribution Group (KDG) as its representative for the functional chemicals line of products beginning December 1, 2014.

Wacker Asahikasei Silicone, a Japanese joint venture of Wacker Chemie AG, opened a new development laboratory for airbag applications.