Maroon Group of Avon, Ohio, acquired Darien, Connecticut-based U.S. Chemicals, a national distributor of specialty chemicals, including products for the lubricants industry. Angus Chemical opened a customer application center in Paris to provide laboratories and a training facility for customers in Europe, Russia, Africa and the Middle East to collaborate with Angus personnel in work on products such as metalworking fluids. Al Pape was named president of Newark, New Jersey-based Shamrock Technologies, a global provider of specialty micronized powders, dispersions, emulsions and compounds, including PTFE, waxes and other additives. Essen, Germany-based Evonik Industries AG acquired the specialty and coating additives business of Air Products and Chemicals for $3.8 billion, in a deal expected to complete by the end of this year.
