BASF announced separate agreements to sell its North American-based silicones business to The Lubrizol Corp. and its ester, alkoxylates and silicones surfactant manufacturing site at Gurnee, IL, to Petroferm Inc.
Rohm and Haas Co. announced the formal start of operations at the company’s new Adhesives and Sealants and Coatings Manufacturing and Technical Service Facility in Taloja, India.
DuPont Performance Coatings announced agreements with Beijing Red Lion Coatings Co. Ltd. of China, forming two automotive coatings joint ventures based in Beijing and Changchun, China.
Akzo Nobel announced plans to build a new architectural-coatings production facility in China, with construction scheduled to begin by the end of the year.
Air Products and Chemicals Inc. and Nanotechnologies Inc. announced a joint development agreement and an equity investment by Air Products in Nanotechnologies aimed at commercial development efforts in select strategic market segments.
Columbian Chemicals Co. announced a global reorganization and the creation of a new Marketing, Sales and Carbon Black Technology group that combines the company's Marketing and Sales groups with the Product Development and Technical Service groups.
Huntsman Corp. announced that MatlinPatterson Global Opportunity Partners completed a restructuring of Vantico and the transfer of the business to HMP Equity Holdings, MatlinPatterson's partnership with Huntsman L.L.C.
Bran+Luebbe, Lightnin and Waukesha Cherry-Burrell have merged to create a new company, SPX Process Equipment, a supplier of process equipment and systems based in Delavan, WI.
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