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Arkema announced that Azelis Canada (Unipex Solutions Canada), an Azelis Americas company, will handle the distribution of the Orgasol^® product line across Canada.

BASF was named a General Motors (GM) Supplier of the Year for 2015 at an awards ceremony in Detroit on March 10.

Safic-Alcan, an international distributor of specialty chemicals, has successfully gained full ownership of Interplast (Turkey).

Siegwerk Druckfarben AG & Co. KGaA has signed a contract to purchase the printing ink manufacturer ACTEGA Colorchemie GmbH and its subsidiaries.

Synthomer, Harlow England, has agreed to buy Hexion Performance Adhesives & Coatings (Hexion PAC), the adhesives and coatings business of Hexion Inc., Columbus, OH, for $226 million.

The Sherwin-Williams Co. and The Valspar Corp. announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement under which Sherwin-Williams will acquire Valspar for $113 per share in an all-cash transaction, or an enterprise value of approximately $11.3 billion.

Vijay Mannari, a professor of polymers and coatings at Eastern Michigan University (EMU), has been awarded a $529,000 grant to develop environmentally responsible, high-performance coatings for the U.S. military.

PPG Industries has partnered with ITECH Engineering School in Lyon, France, to help sponsor the first chemical engineering master’s degree program dedicated to paints and coatings in Europe.

General Motors named Axalta Coating Systems a GM Supplier of the Year during its 24^th annual Supplier of the Year awards ceremony held March 10 in Detroit.

Specialty chemicals company LANXESS reported a successful fiscal 2015 despite a challenging market environment.