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LANXESS Corp.’s Inorganic Pigments Group (IPG) has reached an agreement with Dowd and Guild Inc. and J.F. Shelton Co. to sell the chemical company’s BAYFERROX® inorganic pigments.

Reactive Nano­Technologies, Inc. (RNT), developer and manufacturer of NanoFoil®, has reached an agreement with Ito Corp., a distributor of electronic materials and components headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, to distribute RNT’s NanoFoil products.

RBP Chemical Technology has named UltechGraph as distributor for its line of printing-industry chemicals in Central America.

Baril BV, a liquid coatings manufacturer in the Netherlands, has announced the opening of its U.S. operation, Baril US.

AkzoNobel has opened a new site for the manufacture and sale of protective coatings in Suzhou, China, about 80 kilometers west of Shanghai.

MetoKote Corp. has opened its newest facility in San Luis Potosí, Mexico. This is the eighth facility in Mexico for MetoKote, which has a total of 38 facilities across North America, South America and Europe.

BASF has named two new distributors for a number of its latex dispersions products in the United States.

Fuji Silysia Chemical Ltd. has appointed Majemac Southeast LLC. to be its distributor for the states of Mississippi, Alabama and Georgia.

Hexion Specialty Chemicals has announced that its Brazilian subsidiary, Hexion Quimica Industria e Comercio Ltda., has begun construction of a formaldehyde and resins manufacturing complex to serve the rapidly growing engineered wood products market in southern Brazil.

Tikkurila, which is responsible for Kemira’s paint and coatings business, will establish a sales company in Eastern Europe called IP Tikkurila in Minsk, Belarus.