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The American Society of Safety Engineers (ASSE) is pleased with the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s (OSHA) budget request for fiscal year 2008 of $490.3 million and intends to support it in its efforts to achieve funding levels from Congress.

Natural polymer demand is expected to grow 5.9 percent annually to $3.6 billion in 2010, reaching 1.7 billion pounds.

The American Chemistry Council (ACC) has announced its newly elected officers, committee chair people and board members.

The American Chemistry Council (ACC) announced that the Alliance for the Polyurethanes Industry (API) has become the Center for the Polyurethanes Industry of the ACC.

John Cech, general manager, CVC Specialty Chemicals, Inc., has recently been appointed to serve as president of the Thermoset Resin Formulators Association (TRFA).

The FSCT board of directors regretfully announced the resignation of Robert F. Ziegler as executive director of the FSCT.

The Chinese market for synthetic latex polymers is expected to grow at a higher rate than in North America and Europe, even in worst-case scenario forecasts for the next 10 years, according to a recently published study by Kline & Company.

The U.S. Chemical Safety Board (CSB) is continuing its investigation to determine the root causes of the powerful explosion that destroyed the CAI/Arnel ink manufacturing facility in Danvers, Mass., on November 22, 2006.

The CELERA GROUP, main paint provider of American Paint, must pay import duties amounting to 516% on all water-based latex paint imported to the Costa Rican market, as resolved by the Ministry of Economy, Industry and Trade of this country, after verifying that the CELERA GROUP was involved in dumping practices.

The Anti-Fouling Working Group of the International Paint and Printing Ink Council (IPPIC), for which the National Paint & Coatings Association (NPCA) serves as Secretariat, is urging countries to ratify the International Convention on the Control of Harmful Anti-Fouling Systems on Ships.