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Azelis Group (Azelis), Antwerp, Belgium, has signed a binding agreement to acquire U.S.-based KODA Distribution Group (KDG), significantly enhancing its position as a leading global specialty chemicals distributor.

Mark Peters has joined Orion Engineered Carbons as Senior Vice President & General Manager, Americas Region.

Flint Group announced the appointment of Martina Nast as Key Account Manager Flexographic Products.

Sartomer, a business unit of the Arkema Group and a global leader in specialty acrylates for high-performance energy-cured systems, has named a Worldwide Graphic Art Market Coordinator.

Dymax Oligomers & Coatings has appointed David Robitaille to Sales Manager, Oligomers and Coatings in the Americas and Asia.

Chromaflo Technologies has appointed Dowd and Guild Inc. to distribute and represent its colorants and chemical dispersions in the 11 U.S. states west of the Rocky Mountains and the southwestern states of Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana and Arkansas.

Wacker Chemie AG has officially started up a new reactor for vinyl acetate-ethylene co-polymer (VAE) dispersions at its Calvert City site in Kentucky.

Arkema Coating Resins and OMYA, a leading global producer of industrial minerals and a worldwide distributor of specialty chemicals, are extending their existing distribution cooperation throughout Europe to include liquid resins for the coating industry.

Solvay’s Epicerol^® has won the JEC Asia 2015 Innovation Award for bio-based ECH for more sustainable epoxy resins.

PPG Industries announced that SUNGATE^® passive low-emissivity (low-e) glass, STARPHIRE ULTRA-CLEAR™ glass and CORAFLON^® powder coatings were used on The Tower at PNC Plaza, which opened October 1 in Pittsburgh and is designed to be the world’s greenest office building.