Effective January 1, 2012 Archway Sales Inc. has been named a regional distributor for the Clariant Corporation’s Pigments Business Unit in North America. Under the agreement, Archway will distribute Clariant’s full line of organic pigments, pigment dispersions and dyes to the coatings, printing and plastics markets, for the states of, Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, West Virginia, Ohio, Kentucky, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, Nebraska, North Dakota and South Dakota. Additionally, Archway will handle the plastics market for all states previously listed and the additional states of, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee, Louisiana, Arkansas, Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas.