ACA Announces Mattiello Memorial Award Recipient and Lecturer for 2023 CoatingsTech Conference
The American Coatings Association (ACA) announced that Kurt Wood, Ph.D., retired senior principal scientist at Arkema, Inc., and current consultant in coatings and service life prediction, will deliver the Mattiello Mem orial Lecture at ACA’s 2023 CoatingsTech Conference. The CoatingsTech Conference – ACA’s leading technical event – will be held June 26-28, 2023, at the Hyatt Regency Cleveland at the Arcade, in Cleveland, Ohio, and will embrace the theme, “Coatings Technologies: Adaptation in a Complex World.”
At the conference, Wood will receive the Mattiello Memorial Lecture Award, which recognizes an individual who has made outstanding contributions to science, technology, and/or engineering related to the coatings industry. Joseph J. Mattiello, whose memory is commemorated by this award, did much to expand the application of science in the decorative and protective coatings field.