Hanau, Germany — Heraeus is reorganizing the company's US chemicals division into a single legal entity, Heraeus Precious Metals North America LLC (HPMN). In addition, Heraeus' US trading division will operate under the name Heraeus Metals New York LLC (HMN). The changes became effective July 1, 2012. In addition, customers will now have access to all of HPMN and HMN's products and services on a newly designed Web site http://www.heraeus-hpmn.com. The re-alignment of HPMN will now bring the US chemical sites in Newark, NJ, Wartburg, TN and Santa Fe Springs, CA, together, as one legal entity, to serve clientele with expertise in every aspect of their precious metals management — from sourcing of precious metals, refining of scrap materials, manufacturing of chemical compounds and precious metals trading.