Kemira was recently awarded the Grand Slam Award by the Association of American Railroads.

Exova, a dedicated testing group, has been recognized for the quality of its work by being named on the UK Ministry of Defence’s Framework Agreement for Technical Support (FATS).

ELANTAS Electrical Insulation, a division of the specialty chemicals group ALTANA AG, has signed a purchase agreement with Changzhou Lantian Ruiqi Chemical Co. Ltd. to acquire the Chinese company's tris-2-hydroxyethyl isocyanurate business.

Delaware Governor Jack A. Markell, DNREC Secretary Collin O’Mara and Croda Inc. President Kevin Gallagher broke ground June 7, 2012, on construction of a $6 million landfill-gas-to-energy project at the Croda Atlas Point chemical manufacturing plant in New Castle, DE.

Carboline Co., St. Louis, MO, has acquired an existing 184,500-square-foot building in Dayton, NV, for the purpose of manufacturing and distributing high-performance industrial coatings to support its customers in the western United States and throughout the world.

Richard Trojan has joined The HallStar Co.’s senior management team as Vice President, Human Resources and Corporate Services.

Cabot Corp., a manufacturer of aqueous inkjet pigment dispersions, has completed a $10 million capacity expansion project at its Haverhill, MA, inkjet facility.

The U.S. Government’s Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program (SERDP) has selected The Sherwin-Williams Product Finishes Division to lead a $1.4 million research and development project to develop a chemical agent resistant coating (CARC) powder topcoat for use on military vehicles and support equipment.

On May 24, 2012, Akzo Nobel Industrial Chemicals B.V. celebrated a decade of achievements at its monochloroacetic acid (MCA) plant in Taixing, China.

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