The North African Coatings Congress 2008, organized by The Coatings Group, dmg world media, will be held Oct. 14-15, 2008, at the Hyatt Regency Hotel, Casablanca, Morocco.
Abstracts are now being accepted for the 12th Annual Coatings for Plastics Symposium, to be held June 2-4, 2009, at the Westin Yorktown Center in Lombard, IL. The deadline for submission is Dec. 8, 2008.
According to the consulting firm Kusumgar, Nerlfi & Growney, Dow Chemical’s recently announced acquisition of Rohm and Haas, and Ashland’s of Hercules, will further concentrate the supplier structure of coating additives in Asia.
The Freedonia Group has released a new study that predicts demand for chemical solvents will rise less than one percent per year to 11.8 billion pounds in 2012.
Sartomer Co. has named Marcel de Wolf as Chief Executive Officer, succeeding Luigi Colantuoni, who accepted a new assignment with Sartomer’s parent company, TOTAL S.A., in Paris.
Nilfisk CFM has appointed Joe Wintsch to be its new Director of Sales for North America. Wintsch will be responsible for driving sales efforts in the United States, Canada and Mexico.<