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Bayer MaterialScience LLC has acquired DuPont’s Baytown, Texas, aniline production facility.

Demand for products and services related to the development of shale gas and tight oil resources in the U.S. is forecast to rise 3.5% annually.

Edmund F. (Ted) Burke has been appointed vice president of Sales at The E.W. Kaufmann Co.

Matthias Zachert will take over as chairman of the Board of Management at LANXESS AG on April 1.

ExxonMobil Chemical Co. has announced plans to build what is reportedly the world’s largest hydrogenated tackifier manufacturing facility.

This company, a business unit of Arkema, has added to its line of waterborne emulation binders for use in formulating roof coatings.

Chromaflo Technologies recently announced it has appointed Dean Bell Southeast Territory Sales Manager.

Sun Chemical Performance Pigments recently announced it has received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval for Food Contact Notification (FCN) 1311 covering its C.I. Pigment Red 122 as a colorant.

Myriant Corp. recently announced it has supplied commercial quantities of bio-succinic acid to Oxea for use in the production of bio-based, phthalate-free plasticizers.

Eastman Chemical Co. recently announced an expansion of carboxylic acids capacity at its Longview, Texas, and Kingsport, Tenn., facilities.