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CPS Color, a major supplier of tint systems, announced an agreement to acquire COROB Group, a manufacturer of automatic tinting equipment, from Swisslog AG.

UCB Group and Solutia Inc. announced a definitive agreement under which UCB will acquire Solutia's Resins, Additives and Adhesives businesses for $500 million in cash, plus a $10 million exclusivity fee.

DuPont Co. has given a Marketing Excellence Award to a team from the company's Textiles & Interiors Nylon Intermediates, Specialties and Polymer business that developed the Vapor Hazard Ratio.

The Dow Chemical Co. said its UCAR Emulsion Systems business unit will idle the latex production facility at Bayamon, Puerto Rico, by Jan. 31.

Degussa announced the start-up of operations at a new aminosilanes production facility at the company's Mobile, AL, manufacturing site.

Behr Process Corp. has been named a "Partner of the Year" by Home Depot for the home-center chain's paint department.

Akzo Nobel said it may cut more jobs in its coatings and pharmaceutical businesses in addition to previously announced reductions, according to news reports in Europe.

Ciba Specialty Chemicals announced that the company's quinacridone pigments currently sold in the United States under the MONASTRAL brand name will be marketed as CINQUASIA pigments.

EM Industries Inc. announced a change in the business's name to EMD Chemicals Inc., effective Jan. 1.

Reichhold Inc. said it is expanding production of glycidyl methacrylate acrylic (GMA) resins by 4 million lbs. per year at the company's facility in Vienna, with the added capacity expected to become operational in the second quarter of 2003.