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Ashland Inc. is responding to strong demand for Natrosol™ hydroxyethylcellulose (HEC) by expanding production across its global network through capacity additions at its facilities in Nanjing, China, and Zwijndrecht, the Netherlands.

Global chemical company Oxea has successfully increased its manufacturing capabilities for syngas at its Bay City, TX, plant by 10 percent.

ICL Performance Products, a specialty phosphate producer, has acquired Halox, a division of Hammond Group Inc.

Evonik Industries announced plans to build world-scale plants for producing isophorone and isophorone diamine in Shanghai, China.

WACKER has received Frost & Sullivan’s New Product Innovation Award for its GENIOSIL® product class.

Celanese Corp., a global technology and specialty materials company, announced an agreement to acquire certain assets from Ashland Inc.

DSM Coating Resins, a business unit of Royal DSM N.V., has outlined plans to align the organization to focus on its core coating and graphic arts resins markets.

The specialty chemical company Rhodia announced three new production units at its Zhenjiang, China, site.

Chemical distributor Univar Inc. has acquired Arinos Química Ltda. (Arinos).

BASF Coatings has been honored with a design award for XFine®, its unique automotive color innovation.