Ciba Specialty Chemicals has appointed Tri-iso, Inc., Claremont, Calif., as its West Coast distributor for Ciba Coatings effects pigments, UV absorbers, hindered-amine light stabilizers, antioxidants, photoinitiators and optical brighteners for the paint and coatings market.
The UMR Coatings Institute at the University of Missouri-Rolla is offering a short course designed for the new coatings person in areas such as sales, marketing or production.
Atlas Weathering Services Group (AWSG), a division of Atlas Material Testing Technology LLC, has announced a suite of value-added services available with every test program at no additional costs.
According to the consulting firm Kusumgar, Nerlfi & Growney, U.S. consumption of radiation-cured printing inks in 2005 was $353 MM. Sales dollars grew at a 4% annual rate since 2000, slightly less than volume growth.
DuPont Automotive Systems will consolidate its two coatings laboratories located in Southeastern Michigan into its Mt. Clemens, Mich., automotive coatings manufacturing plant and research facility.
CPS Color, supplier of tinting systems, has appointed Akvastrims SIA as its agent for servicing its COROB equipment for customers in the Baltic States of Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia.
Soliant, LLC, received the Environmental Award in the Emerging Technologies category at the GPEC 2006, February 28 - March 2, in Atlanta, for its innovative, commercially adopted paint-film process that reduces emissions to the environment by 98% when compared to traditional vehicle painting.
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