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The 52nd Annual Sink or Swim Symposium will be held May 12-13, 2009, at the University of Akron, Student Union Bldg., Akron, OH.

Brookfield Engineering, Middleboro, MA, has acquired RheoTec Messtechnik GmbH of Dresden, Germany.

Buhrs Americas has named Robert Pitel to the position of Western Region Sales Manager.

The National Association for Surface Finishing has announced the names of the new officers and board members for 2009.

Nubiola Inorganic Pigments has successfully finalized the expansion of its global ultramarines manufacturing capacity.

Rohm and Haas’s Jörgen Lindholm, Manager, R&D and Technical Service, FINNDISP Division, will present recent technical findings in a paper titled, “A Waterborne Acrylic Binder for Industrial Furniture Lacquers with Unique Properties” at the Advances in Coatings Technology Conference (ACT’08) in Warsaw, Poland, from Nov. 25-27.

The American Society of Safety Engineers (ASSE) recently announced that the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) approved the reaffirmation of the American National Standard ANSI Z244.1-2003 (R2008) “Control of Hazardous Energy – Lockout/Tagout and Alternative Methods,” which aims to protect workers from hazardous energy associated with machines, equipment or processes that could cause injury.

The Morse Manufacturing Co., Inc., a specialist in drum handling located in East Syracuse, NY, offers a variety of drum handling solutions. Among these solutions is an end-over-end drum tumbler featuring an eccentric angle that provides exceptional mixing of closed drums.

Bayer MaterialScience has lifted force majeure for most of the products manufactured at its facility in Baytown, TX.

Dryvit Systems, a manufacturer of Outsulation® systems, has announced that National Quality Assurance has awarded ISO 14001:2004 certification to its West Warwick, RI, headquarters.