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Chemical distributor Chemcentral is moving into new offices while it continues to service clients following a fire at its Seattle-area facility.

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has delayed its rulemaking on perchloroethylene.

Liquid Control has moved into its new 75,000-sq-ft facility in North Canton, Ohio.

Sterling Fluid Systems (USA) has established an alliance with Field Technologies.

Merlin Packaging Technologies has begun operations as a custom packager of epoxies, urethanes, silicones, acrylics, cyanoacrylates, polysulfides, methacrylates and polyesters.

The Pressure Sensitive Tape Council (PSTC) has issued a Resource Library brochure that lists several of its key publications that are considered important reference sources on current products, testing procedures and technological developments.

Demand for adhesives, sealants and coatings used in the U.S. automotive industry is forecast to increase 1.3 percent per year to 1.8 billion pounds in 2003.

Rohm and Haas forecast sales of acrylic-backed carton-sealing tapes to approach, if not exceed, three million miles in year one of the new millennium.

The Royal Dutch/Shell Group of Companies have reached an agreement in principle for the sale of its global KRATON™ Polymers business to Ripplewood Holdings L.L.C.

The Hydraulic Institute (HI) and the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Industrial Technologies have signed an Allied Partner Agreement in which the two organizations will collaborate on initiatives that promote improved pumping-system energy efficiency among pump manufacturers and end users.