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Dow, Midland, MI, has inaugurated a new formulation and prototyping development laboratory in Ribaforada, Spain.

Dyneon LLC, a 3M company headquartered in Oakdale, MN, has acquired the business of Hitech Polymers Inc., a manufacturer of specialty thermoplastic polymers and provider of toll thermoplastic compounding services based in Hebron, KY.

Cloverdale Paint Inc. of Surrey, British Columbia, Canada, has purchased Guertin Coatings, Sealants and Polymers Ltd.

Eliokem, a global specialty chemical company that is majority-owned by AXA Private Equity, has completed the acquisition of the Polymer division from Apar Industries Ltd., India, for $28 million.

The Sherwin-Williams Co. has acquired Becker Powder Coatings Inc. in North America, a subsidiary of AB Wilh. Becker based in Sweden. Simultaneously, AB Wilh. Becker has acquired the North American coil coatings business of Sherwin-Williams and related assets.

Sika Corp. has acquired the commercial and industrial polymer flooring business of the Valspar Corp.

Clariant International Ltd. and Zhejiang Baihe Chemical Holding Group have announced the expansion of the Hangzhou Baihe Clariant Pigments Co., Ltd. joint venture.

BASF Corp. has extended Canadian distributorship of its full line of resins to Dempsey Corp.

Ravin Gandhi and Kanti Gandhi, former owners of Coatings and Chemicals Corp. (CCC), have returned to the non-stick coatings industry with a joint venture coatings company called GMM Development Limited.

Dow Polyurethanes, a business group of The Dow Chemical Co. (Dow) and its subsidiaries, is conducting a feasibility study to expand toluene diisocyanate (TDI) production at its manufacturing facility in Camaçari, Brazil.