Lennart Holm, Perstorp’s Chairman of the Board, is leaving the company.

AkzoNobel has launched a new initiative at its International Research Centre in Bangalore, India.

Troy Corp., Florham Park, NJ, is expanding its facilities to serve the Asia-Pacific market.

A BYK team has won the 2012 ALTANA Innovation Award.

Whitford, Elverson, PA, a manufacturer of fluoropolymer coatings, has moved its UK facility to a larger property to accommodate the company’s growth and to provide room for continued expansion.

Pump Solutions Group (PSG), a business unit within Dover Corp. that produces positive displacement pumps and related technologies, has been awarded Frost & Sullivan’s 2012 Global Growth Excellence Award in the Positive Displacement Pumps market.

Wacker Chemie AG, Munich, Germany, is expanding its presence in Mexico and Brazil.

Adhesive Applications has expanded its laboratory capabilities, including new product testing equipment, and added technical staff members.

Following the successful capacity increase of its syngas production facility in Bay City, TX, the chemical company Oxea is in the last stages of a feasibility study of additional downstream plant expansion projects.

Specialty chemicals company Clariant Ltd. and Wilmar International Limited have, through their subsidiaries, signed an agreement to establish a 50-50 joint venture as the global platform for production and sale of amines and selected amines derivatives.