US-based SI Group (Schenectady, New York; www.siigroup.com) has announced that Germany’s Brenntag (Essen; www.brenntag.com) will continue to distribute the American company’s plastics additives in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA), and the business relationship has been broadened to include chemical intermediates and coating resins.

Sara Ghione, director of polymers EMEA Brenntag Specialties said, “We are thrilled to add SI Group’s performance chemicals and coating resins products to our portfolio as it enables us to offer a more differentiated range of solutions to our chemical intermediates and coatings customers. Additionally, it further extends our longstanding and successful partnership with SI Group with the aim to grow together even further.”

SI Group’s speciality additives are used in a wide variety of markets, including surfactants, personal care, agriculture, plastics, and engineering plastics. Its coating resins act as crosslinking agents said to offer improved temperature resistance, adherence, and scratch properties.