IMCD N.V. has successfully completed the acquisition of 100% of the outstanding shares of U.S. specialty chemicals distributor E.T. Horn Co.

Ascend Performance Materials announced the purchase of Britannia Techno Polymer (BTP), an engineering plastics compounder based in the Netherlands.

AkzoNobel Specialty Chemicals finalized an agreement to acquire Brazilian firm Polinox, South America's leading producer of ketone peroxides, essential in the manufacture of polymers.

Excelitas Technologies Corp. has completed the acquisition of Research Electro Optics, Boulder, Colorado.

Massman Automation Designs LLC, Villard, Minnesota, has acquired Ideal-Pak, a liquid filling and packaging machine manufacturer located in Madison, Wisconsin.

AkzoNobel has entered into an agreement to acquire 100% of the shares of Fabryo Corp. S.R.L., becoming the leader in the Romanian decorative paints market.

IMCD N.V., a distributor of specialty chemicals, has signed an agreement to acquire 100% of the outstanding shares of E.T. Horn Co. (HORN), La Miranda, California.

Dürr is forming a leading supplier of environmental technology systems for industrial exhaust-air purification through the acquisition of the industrial environmental technology business of Babcock & Wilcox Enterprises Inc.

Hempel A/S has signed an agreement to acquire 65% of one of Germany's leading manufacturers of decorative paint.

Maroon Group LLC, Avon, Ohio, has acquired J. Tech Sales, a national distributor of specialty chemicals and ingredients headquartered in Boca Raton, Florida.