Castolin Eutectic has acquired Monitor Coatings Group, a privately held company that provides surface engineering in extreme environments.

In the course of its expansion in the American market, Plasmatreat US, Elgin, IL, a subsidiary of Plasmatreat GmbH, Germany, has acquired the low-pressure plasma specialist 4th State Inc., Belmont, CA.

Dusatec Inc., Ramsey, NJ, has purchased the entire lines of TURBULENT™ mixers, reactors and dryers, Superflushers™, both of batch and continuous designs, and the GELIMAT™ thermo kinetic compounding machines, both of batch and semi-continuous designs, from Buhler AG, Switzerland.

PPG Industries has reached a definitive agreement to acquire certain assets of Deft Inc., a privately-owned specialty coatings company based in Irvine, CA.

Swiss specialty chemicals group Clariant International AG acquired the nano-silver ink technology platform developed under the trademark Bayink^® from Bayer Group, Germany.

The coating resins business that was formerly part of Cytec Industries Inc. has become an independent company with the completion of the previously announced sale from Cytec to funds affiliated with Advent International, a global private equity firm.

German specialty chemicals group LANXESS has acquired Singapore-based biocides producer PCTS Specialty Chemicals Pte. Ltd.

As part of PPG Industries’ acquisition of the North American architectural coatings business of AkzoNobel, Scott B. Sinetar, Vice President, PPG Architectural Coatings, North America, is set to lead the combined architectural coatings business.

Purac, a subsidiary of CSM with headquarters in the Netherlands, has agreed to acquire BIRD Engineering B.V.

Fort Dearborn Co., a top label manufacturer headquartered in Elk Grove, IL, has acquired the coatings label business of FetterGroup, a printing and manufacturing company located in Louisville, KY.