Sea-Land Chemical announced Joseph Clayton will retire as president Dec. 31 after 34 years with the company, the last 16 as president. Clayton will remain on the board of directors at Sea-Land, which in August appointed Jennifer Altstadt chief operating officer, overseeing all operations for the Westlake, Ohio-based chemical distributor and its subsidiaries in Canada and Europe. H&R USA made an equity investment into Novvi LLC, a joint venture of Amyris, Cosan S.A., American Refining Group and Chevron USA focused on using Amyris technology to produce renewable base stocks from Cosans sugar. Terms were not disclosed. Croda held a ribbon cutting ceremony recently in New Castle, Delaware, to mark upcoming commissioning of its new biobased, non-ionic surfactants plant.