Ashland Water Technologies, a commercial unit of Ashland Inc., and Dorf Ketal Chemicals LLC, a specialty chemicals company serving the downstream refining and petrochemical industries, recently announced they have entered a strategic distribution agreement within North America and the Caribbean. Under the terms of the agreement, Water Technologies will serve as Dorf Ketal’s sole distributor in the assigned territory, initially North America and the Caribbean.

Ashland Water Technologies and Dorf Ketal intend to accelerate the delivery of innovative products and services to the refining and chemical processing industries. Field engineers and applications specialists from both companies will work together to deliver highly differentiated process and water treatment solutions, as well as documented return on investment, to customers.