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AkzoNobel has appointed Krahn Chemie as its distribution partner for the construction industry in Benelux for the Bermocoll^® cellulose ethers and Elotex^® emulsion powders product groups.

Ascend Performance Materials’ Specialty Chemicals division has successfully produced its first full-scale production run of its newest trifunctional amine Hexatran.

A recent capital investment will expand capacity at INVISTA’s Terate^® and TERRIN™ polyols manufacturing facility in Vlissingen, the Netherlands.

VAC-U-MAX, a global manufacturer of vacuum cleaning systems, has named Dickson Industrial Insight & Innovation Inc. (DI3) as VAC-U-MAX’s new industrial vacuum cleaning representative serving Ontario, Canada.

Arkema announced that Azelis Canada (Unipex Solutions Canada), an Azelis Americas company, will handle the distribution of the Orgasol^® product line across Canada.

Safic-Alcan, an international distributor of specialty chemicals, has successfully gained full ownership of Interplast (Turkey).

Synthomer, Harlow England, has agreed to buy Hexion Performance Adhesives & Coatings (Hexion PAC), the adhesives and coatings business of Hexion Inc., Columbus, OH, for $226 million.

The Sherwin-Williams Co. and The Valspar Corp. announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement under which Sherwin-Williams will acquire Valspar for $113 per share in an all-cash transaction, or an enterprise value of approximately $11.3 billion.