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The Sherwin-Williams Co. and The Valspar Corp. have extended the termination date of the definitive agreement under which Sherwin-Williams will acquire Valspar from March 21, 2017 to June 21, 2017.

Solvay and Nexeo Solutions Inc. announced that effective April 20, 2017, Nexeo Solutions will become an authorized distributor of the Solvay AEROSOL^® Surfactant Chemistry, formerly sold by Cytec Industries Inc., in the United States and Canada.

A lot has changed in automotive coatings, and the premier automotive coatings conference, Future Of Coatings Under Study (FOCUS), has been helping coatings formulators to stay on the leading edge of technology.

Chromaflo Technologies Corp. has executed a purchase agreement with Elementis Specialties Inc. in which Chromaflo Technologies has acquired the Elementis Tint-Ayd^® line of colorant products and select Dapro^® driers supplied from the United States.

New York’s State Senate Environmental Conservation Committee approved legislation sponsored by Senator Tom O’Mara to establish an industry-sponsored Paint Stewardship Program to reduce a burden on local governments that are currently responsible for collecting and disposing of most post-consumer, unused paint.

BioAmber Inc. announced operational and financial results for the three months and year ended December 31, 2016.

The Valspar Corp. announced that its Automotive division has begun a major extension of its Technology Center in Lelystad, the Netherlands.

An enthusiastic response to AkzoNobel's Imagine Chemistry initiative has resulted in more than 200 innovative ideas being submitted by chemistry start-ups, scientists, research groups and students around the world.

Oxea has started the construction of a new world-scale propanol unit at its production site at Bay City, Texas.