The 12th International Coatings Congress is taking place November 21-23, 2011, at the Transamerica Expo Center in São Paulo, Brazil, as part of ABRAFATI 2011.
The Polymers and Coatings program at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, CA, will offer a Polymers and Coatings Introductory Short Course during the week of July 18-22, 2011.
The California Air Resources Board (ARB) has decided to no longer require submission of the annual architectural coating reporting established by local districts adopting the ARB’s 2000 architectural coatings suggested control measure (SCM).
Dean C. Webster of North Dakota State University, Department of Coatings and Polymeric Materials, will receive the Roy W. Tess Award in Coatings for 2011.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has issued a final rule that extends the deadline for reporting 2010 data under the Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Reporting Program to September 30, 2011.
A new ASTM International standard now fulfills the need within the concrete surface preparation field for a means of measuring and permanently replicating the profile of a concrete-coated building surface.
Specialty chemical producer Rhodia, Paris, France, has completed the acquisition of the new guar derivatives production unit belonging to Suzhou HiPro Polymers, based at Zhangjiagang, Jiangsu Province, China.