3M recently reported second quarter sales of $7.5 billion, down 1.9% year-over-year. Organic local-currency sales grew 1.9% and acquisitions added 0.5% to sales.

Evans Analytical Group (EAG) recently announced that EAG Coatings Solutions (formerly CAS-MI) will relocate to Missouri and join its sister company, CHEMIR.

Vertellus Specialties Inc. recently announced that Palmer Holland will be its authorized distributor in several Midwestern states, effective August 15.

Construction expenditures in China are expected to increase 8.8% per year in real terms through 2016, according to a new report.

Recipients include its Performance Chemicals business segment facilities in Akron, Ohio; Mogadore, Ohio; Chester, SC; and Green Bay, WI; Villejust, France; and Shanghai, China.

Clariant recently announced it has signed an agreement to acquire the remaining 40% share of a joint venture between the holding company Alvigo AS, based in Tallin/Estonia, and Süd-Chemie AG, in the meantime acquired by Clariant AG.

The Society of Chemical Manufacturers and Affiliates (SOCMA) recently announced that four new member companies have joined the organization.

Net sales were $1.53 billion, an approximately 1% decrease from $1.54 billion in the same quarter last year.

Ferro Corp. recently announced net sales of $482 million for the three-month period ended June 30, 2012, a decline of 19%.