PPG Industries announced that it is increasing its global precipitated silica production capacity by more than 18,000 tons per year in response to growing global demand.
The University of Southern Mississippi School of Polymers and High Performance Materials, Hattiesburg, MS, will honor and memorialize the late Sidney Lauren, a leader in the coatings industry, on September 23 with the dedication of the Sidney Lauren Memorial Learning Center.
Dow Coating Materials (DCM), a global business unit of The Dow Chemical Co., has appointed veteran specialty chemical sales professional Michael Lewis to the position of West Coast Sales Manager.
Researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have unveiled a semiconductor nanocrystal coating material capable of controlling heat from the sun while remaining transparent.
Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute developed a new method for creating a layer of gold nanoparticles that measures only billionths of a meter thick.
Michael Molnar, Chief Manufacturing Officer for the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) at the U.S. Department of Commerce, delivered his first public address in this new position at the inaugural Interactive Manufacturing Experience (imX) industry summit in Las Vegas.
Plasticolors Inc., a custom colorant and chemical dispersions manufacturer for the thermoset plastics and coatings industries, recently appointed Andrew Locy as Chemist within the Coatings Technical Group.
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