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CHEMICAL DISTRIBUTION
IMCD BIGGER IN BRAZIL
Ashland has appointed IMCD Brasil to distribute its full line of personal care and home care products in selected states in Brazil. “The addition of Ashland’s world-class ingredients to IMCD Brasil’s personal care and home care portfolios is an important win for our technical sales team,” says Nicolas Kaufmann, managing director of IMCD Brasil. “The availability of Ashland’s robust product line will support our customers and IMCD’s application specialists to develop in our laboratories new formulations that favour the creation of innovative products for the Brazilian market.” “We are excited to extend our successful relationship in other regions of the world with IMCD to Brazil,” says Alessandro Moraes, Ashland’s general director for Latin America. “We are confident that IMCD’s team of technical and market experts in the personal care and home care industries will add to Ashland’s structure, help expand business and further develop customer relationships.
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The entire national territory will be covered by IMCD Brasil, with the exception of the South region (Paraná, Santa Catarina and Rio Grande do Sul) where Ashland already has a distributor.” In Finland, IMCD has acquired Oy KokkoFiber AB, a leading supplier of fibre-reinforced plastic composite materials. “IMCD Finland was established 25 years ago and since then we have strived to offer our customers best-in-class solutions,” says Sami Valkama, managing director of IMCD Finland. “We recognise the importance of the composite business in the Nordic region. With this acquisition, IMCD will not only expand and strengthen its relationship with other suppliers in the composites market, but it will be in an excellent position to offer its synergistic product portfolio to new customers.” In corporate news, IMCD has opened a new US headquarters facility in Westlake, Ohio (below), designed to accommodate current and future business growth and to complement its global digitisation initiatives to better serve its markets across the US.
Thomas Van Valkenburgh, president of IMCD US, says the new site was created “to enable employees in their quest to drive excellence as we serve both our principals and customer partners. This is not just a new office space, but a modern work environment carefully designed to inspire collaboration, galvanise partnerships and encourage entrepreneurship.” www.imcdgroup.com 3M GETS INTO CANADA WITH PH
Cleveland, Ohio-based Palmer Holland and 3M have expanded their long-term agreement, which will now include distribution of 3M Advanced Materials’ portfolio in Canada. “3M has been one of our premiere principals for over 30 years, and this expansion further solidifies the mutual dedication between our organisations to growing together,” says Tony Denton, Palmer Holland’s business director. “We are very excited to share our expertise throughout Canada.” www.palmerholland.com TELKO GROWS LUBES BUSINESS
Telko has acquired ILS Nordic and its subsidiary Autolubes Nordic, strengthening its position in the Nordic lubes market. ILS Nordic is a strategic distribution partner of BP Castrol in Sweden and Norway; Telko has been BP Castrol’s distributor in Finland since 1958.
