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The article reports that Akzo Nobel’s pulp and paper chemicals business Eka Chemicals AB has invested about $67 million in a deal with a Brazilian papermaker. The company has signed a 15-year agreement to supply, store and handle chemicals for a novel eucalyptus-based pulp mill being constructed in Tres Lagoas by Votorantim Celulose e Papel SA.

The article offers news briefs on the chemical specialties industry. RPM International says its Carboline subsidiary has acquired some intumescent fireproofing assets from Nu-Chem of Saint Louis, Missouri and that its Tremco Group subsidiary has purchased green roof systems producer Permaquik of Mississauga, Ontario. Aqualon Co. will build a hydroxyethyl-cellulose manufacturing plant in Nanjing, China. Eka Chemicals Co. has opened a new paper chemical facility in Guangzhou, China that will serve the Chinese paper industry.

Presents news briefs in the speciality chemical industry as of October 2005. Legal action faced by Johnson & Johnson's McNeil Nutritionals regarding its marketing claims for Splenda brand sucralose; Commencement of Eka Chemicals' pulp and paper chemical operations in Brazil.

Presents an update on the chemical industry as of April 16, 2003. Worth of the agchem lines acquired by BASF from Bayer; Reorganization of the pulp and paper chemicals operations of Eka Chemicals; Acquisition of Laporte Performance Chemicals by Cognis.