Bayer Corp. announced an agreement in principle to acquire a portion of Lyondell Chemical Co.'s aliphatic diisocyanates (ADI) assets, including Lyondell's remaining Luxate product inventories and intellectual properties, effective Jan. 1.
The Valspar Corp. announced the acquisition of certain assets of the coil, spray-applied door and rigid-packaging businesses of Benjamin Moore & Co.'s Technical Coatings Co.
The Henkel Group completed the sale of Cognis, the company's specialty chemicals business, to an investment consortium that includes Permira, GS Capital Partners and Schroder Ventures Life Sciences.
Chemcentral Corp. has completed the acquisition of substantially all of the assets of Southwest Solvents & Chemicals, a distributor of chemicals with facilities in Texas and Los Angeles.