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TCI Powder Coatings announced the opening of a new office in Americus, GA.

HORN, a distributor of specialty ingredients, chemicals and raw materials, was awarded BASF Kaolin’s Global Distributor of the Year award.

PPG Architectural Coatings has teamed up with Make-A-Wish^® America to help bring hope, strength and joy to children with life-threatening medical conditions through the power of color and a fresh coat of paint.

BioAmber Inc., a leader in renewable materials, announced that its Sarnia, Ontario, production plant, which is jointly owned with Mitsui & Co., has received ISO 9001, ISO 14001, OHSAS 18001 and FSSC 22000 certifications.

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.