Para-Chem recently announced partnerships with Azalea Color Co., Atlanta, and Durr Marketing Associates, Inc., Pittsburgh, to distribute its acrylic resins.
For the second time since 2003, BASF Coatings has been named a General Motors Supplier of the Year for exceptional performance as a global supplier of automotive OEM coatings.
Valspar has agreed to acquire Samuel Cabot Inc., Newburyport, Mass., the 128-year-old, privately owned manufacturer of exterior and interior stains and finishes.
Chemcraft Holdings Corp. has entered into an agreement with Inchem Holdings International Ltd. The agreement provides Chemcraft with a minority position in Inchem along with an arrangement to exchange product technologies.
John Deere Welland Works, Welland, Ontario, has recognized BASF as a "Partner Supplier," the highest level in the John Deere "Achieving Excellence" supplier program.
Grace Davison, a business unit of W.R. Grace & Co., has increased its production capacity for SHIELDEX® anti-corrosive pigments by more than 50% at its site in Worms, Germany.
Borden Chemical, Inc., Columbus, Ohio, and Resolution Performance Products LLC (RPP), Houston, jointly announced plans to merge, together with Resolution Specialty Materials LLC (RSM), Carpentersville, Ill., to form the world's largest producer of thermosetting resins.
Crompton Corp., Middlebury, Conn., and Great Lakes Chemical Corp., Indianapolis, announced that once their merger is complete, the new company will be known as "Chemtura" (pronounced chem-CHOOR-a) Corporation.
The Dow Chemical Company plans to build a new phenolic glycol ether production unit in Freeport, Texas, to meet the changing needs of its performance-solvents customers.
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