Less than five months after the DuPont titanium dioxide manufacturing plant near Delisle, Miss., suffered a direct hit from Hurricane Katrina, the company announced on January 25, 2006, that manufacturing operations have resumed at the site.
Demand for wood-protection coatings and preservatives is forecast to increase 2.7 percent per year to $3.0 billion in 2009, despite a challenging market environment. Continued weakness in the key siding market is prompting coatings manufacturers to place greater emphasis on growing applications such as cabinets and flooring. In addition, demand will benefit from upgrading, steady production of pressure-treated lumber, and solid levels of construction-related repair and improvement spending.
Spartan Environmental Technologies, a distributor and manufacturer of chemical oxidation and disinfection equipment, has appointed Applied Process Equipment, Inc., as its representative for the states of Arizona and New Mexico.
The Federation of Societies for Coatings Technology has announced the results of the election of members to its board of directors. In all, 1,098 ballots, representing over 25% of the membership, were submitted.
On May 11 and 12, 2006, Atlas Material Testing Technology will hold the second ATCAE (Atlas Technical Conference for Accelerated Aging and Evaluation) in Sanary-sur-Mer, France. ATCAE 2006 will focus on natural outdoor weathering and laboratory weathering, as well as the correlation between these two methods.
Global specialty chemicals manufacturer Sartomer Company has opened Sartomer Japan in Tokyo. Part of the Sartomer Asia division, the new office will serve formulators and chemists throughout Japan, providing technical and sales support for Sartomer's entire line of specialty chemicals, which includes monomers, oligomers, polybutadiene resins and styrene maleic anhydride resins.
Christine AngosBogard Lagman, executive vice president, Charles Ross & Son Company, has announced the addition of Christine Angos as a new application engineer to the corporate staff in Hauppauge, N.Y.
TEFSA-Group, a leading international designer and manufacturer of industrial dewatering and filtration equipment headquartered in Barcelona, Spain, has formed a strategic partnership with Applied Process Equipment, Inc., a wastewater technology distributor in Scottsdale, Ariz.
The sixth biennial International Paint, Varnish, Ink & Auxiliary Products Industry Congress & Exhibition, PAINT 2006, will take place May 17-19 at the Istanbul Convention and Exhibition Center (ICEC).
"Flint Group" has been selected as the new name for the holding company created by the merger in late-2005 of European-based XSYS Print Solutions and American-owned Flint Ink Corporation.
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