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Taylor Chemical Co., a leading formulator and manufacturer of silicone-based technology, has announced a comprehensive rebranding and name change of the 29-year-old company.

IPS Corporation has named Kevin Connolly director of operations for its WELD-ON^® structural adhesives.

Extrusion Dies Industries LLC (EDI) and ITW Dynatec recently reached a worldwide agreement to market turnkey hot-melt adhesive coating stations by combining ITW Dynatec’s melting and fluid delivery equipment with EDI’s slot die systems.

EFD, a subsidiary of Nordson, has won the 2009 Surface Mount Technology (SMT) Magazine Vision Award for its new lead-free, halide-free, water-soluble solder pastes.

Wacker Chemie AG, Munich, Germany, has announced plans to build a new 550-acre hyper-pure polycrystalline silicone facility in Tennessee for approximately $20 million.

Applied Products Inc., Minnetonka, MN, has been named Midwest Strategic channel partner and Technical Service Center for Hot Melt Technologies Inc., Rochester, MI, and Graco Inc./Liquid Control, North Canton, OH.

H.B. Fuller Co. recently reported financial results for the first quarter that ended February 28, 2009.

Tremco Inc., Beachwood, OH, recently named Randall J. Korach as president and chief operating officer.

INTERPOLYMER GmbH, Hassloch, Germany, has announced that the first production line of a new facility for waterborne styrene-acrylic dispersions, acrylic solutions and wax dispersions has started production in Nanjing, China.

LANXESS, Pittsburgh, recently announced the completion of de-bottlenecking operations for its MESAMOLL^® plasticizer and other alkyl sulfonic ester derivative plasticizers.