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AkzoNobel and Evonik Industries have broken ground at the site of their production joint venture for chlorine and potassium hydroxide solution at Ibbenbüren in Germany.

Ribelin Sales Inc., an Azelis Americas company based in Garland, TX, announced the expansion of its sales force with the hiring of two Technical Sales Representatives.

Phoseon Technology has appointed Stacy Fender as the company's Vice President of Worldwide Sales.

HORN, La Mirada, CA, has promoted Eva O’Keefe to Vice President of Strategic Accounts and Jay Umphrey to Vice President of Key Accounts.

Toyochem Co. Ltd., a subsidiary of the Toyo Ink SC Holdings Co. Ltd., has executed an agreement to acquire the exclusive rights to a limited number of one-component, solvent-based acrylic pressure sensitive adhesive (PSA) technologies from Rohm and Haas Chemicals LLC of Philadelphia, a subsidiary of The Dow Chemical Co.

Producing high-purity silicon compounds is today an expensive and carbon-intensive process that requires heating mined silicon metal and anthracite coal to 3500 °C in an electric arc furnace. That could soon change, thanks to a new technology that can produce the same silica compounds from agricultural waste.

RPM International Inc. reported a 20 percent increase in net income and a 19 percent increase in earnings per diluted share on an 8 percent sales increase for its fiscal 2016 second quarter ended November 30, 2015. 

Vencorex’s Freeport site in the United States completed its new waterborne production expansion.