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3M has completed its acquisition of E Wood Holdings PLC, a North Yorkshire, UK-based manufacturer of high-performance protective coatings for oil, gas, water, rail and automotive industries.

Greenkote PLC has acquired Industrial Powder Coating’s (IPC’s) coating operations and formed a new entity, Greenkote IPC.

Univar N.V., a world leader in chemical distribution, announced it has completed the acquisition of CHEMCENTRAL Corp., Bedford Park, Ill.

Philadelphia Mixing Solutions, Ltd. (PMSL), a designer, developer and manufacturer of mixing and aeration systems, has added PMSL Live Chat Customer Service to its website.

Reichhold, Inc., has changed its coatings distribution representation in two U.S. regions.

Dow Polyurethanes, a business unit of The Dow Chemical Company, plans to further invest in Europe by expanding capacity at two of its facilities over the next two years.

Dow Epoxy, a business group of The Dow Chemical Company, has named Shanghai Chemical Industry Park as the selected site for its world-scale 150,000-MTPA glycerin-to-epichlorohydrin (GTE) plant and 100,000-MTPA liquid epoxy resins (LER) plant.

BASF is adding 10,000 metric tons to its annual capacity for neopentyl glycol (NPG) at its Verbund site in Ludwigshafen, Germany.

Atlas has announced that its outdoor exposure site in Sanary sur Mer in the Bandol region (south of France) received accreditation to DIN EN ISO/IEC 17025:2005 in early April.

Akzo Nobel N.V., Arnhem, the Netherlands, confirmed on Monday, June 18, 2007, that it has approached the board of Imperial Chemical Industries PLC ("ICI") with a view to entering into discussions about a possible cash offer for ICI. However, the approach has been rejected.