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Safic-Alcan, an international distributor of specialty chemicals, has successfully gained full ownership of Interplast (Turkey).

Synthomer, Harlow England, has agreed to buy Hexion Performance Adhesives & Coatings (Hexion PAC), the adhesives and coatings business of Hexion Inc., Columbus, OH, for $226 million.

The Sherwin-Williams Co. and The Valspar Corp. announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement under which Sherwin-Williams will acquire Valspar for $113 per share in an all-cash transaction, or an enterprise value of approximately $11.3 billion.

Vijay Mannari, a professor of polymers and coatings at Eastern Michigan University (EMU), has been awarded a $529,000 grant to develop environmentally responsible, high-performance coatings for the U.S. military.

PPG Industries has partnered with ITECH Engineering School in Lyon, France, to help sponsor the first chemical engineering master’s degree program dedicated to paints and coatings in Europe.

General Motors named Axalta Coating Systems a GM Supplier of the Year during its 24^th annual Supplier of the Year awards ceremony held March 10 in Detroit.

Specialty chemicals company LANXESS reported a successful fiscal 2015 despite a challenging market environment.

At the World Bio Markets (WBM) conference in Amsterdam, Stora Enso was awarded Biobased Brand of the Year for its ongoing biomaterials transformation.

P.T. Hutchins, an Azelis Americas company, has earned the 2015 Distributor of the Year Award from the Dispersions & Pigments division of BASF in North America.