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The Center for the Polyurethanes Industry has issued a call for entries for the 2007 Polyurethane “Innovation Award” nominations and also has changed this year’s award program’s three categories to Polyurethane Chemicals, Processing Equipment and Finished Product.

A new venture, formed by a special licensing agreement signed with Rutgers University, has been launched to commercialize and market a green technology being developed by Rutgers’ Center for Advanced Materials via Immiscible Polymer Processing (AMIPP).

Everlight USA has appointed Canada Colors & Chemicals, Don Mills, Ontario, Canada, as its agent and distributor for UV stabilizers in Canada.

The Dow Chemical Company plans to expand production at its Freeport, Texas, MDI facility by 50 percent over the next 36 months.

Distributor, Deeks & Company Inc., will expand service to Georgia, Florida and Alabama.

Eliokem will expand the processing and packaging capability for Pliolite, Plioway and Pliotec resins at its Akron plant.

This month's appointments and announcements

The 10th International Coatings for Plastics Symposium, hosted by Paint & Coatings Industry magazine, will be held at the Hyatt Regency O’Hare in Chicago, June 13-15, 2007.

According to a market report from Intertech-Pira, high-performance pigments are outperforming their lower-grade rivals.

Cytec’s Peter Weissman accepted the sixth annual RadTech President’s Award at the RadTech Winter meeting in Palm Beach, Fla.