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Hexion Specialty Chemicals Inc. has filed suit in a Delaware court to declare its contractual rights with respect to its $10.6 billion merger agreement with Huntsman Corp., effectively terminating the deal.

The Dow Chemical Co. and Rohm and Haas have announced a definitive agreement under which Dow will acquire Rohm and Haas for an estimated $15.4 billion.

Air Products has sold its non-pressure emulsions businesses and related production facilities in Elkton, MD, and Piedmont, SC, to Ashland Inc.

With its first acquisition in China, specialty chemicals company LANXESS AG is expanding the Asian business of its Inorganic Pigments business unit.

Michelman has announced the acquisition of Hydrosize(r) Technologies Inc., Raleigh, NC.

AkzoNobel has agreed to sell its Para(r) and Crown Diamond(r) decorative paint brands in Canada to General Paint Corp.

DSM Powder Coating Resins has opened a new R&D synthesis laboratory at the DSM Powder Coating Resins site in Kunshan, Jiangsu Province, China.

Wheelabrator Group has opened a new manufacturing facility in Poland.

The Dow Chemical Co. (Dow) has announced that the SCG-Dow Group, a joint venture between Dow and The Siam Cement Group (SCG), has broken ground on a propylene oxide (PO) facility in Thailand.

DSM Desotech, a leader in the development and supply of UV-curable fiber-optic materials, has announced the opening of its newly expanded ink manufacturing facility in China, DSM Desotech Specialty Chemicals (Shanghai) Ltd. (DDSC).