The New York Society for Coatings Technology announced plans for a professional-development conference scheduled for Sept. 24-25 at Ceasar's Atlantic City Resort, Atlantic City, NJ.
Akzo Nobel announced the launch of a new business unit focusing on powder coatings, a move the company said reflects an expanded powder-coatings product line.
PPG Industries Inc. has received a "Green Chemistry Challenge Award" from the U.S. EPA in recognition of the company's development of the Enviro-Prime 2000 lead-free anticorrosion electrodeposition coatings.
John S. Ruch, PPG Industries Inc.'s manager of Corporate Public Information and a veteran of nearly 33 years with the company, announced his retirement, effective July 1.
Erin M. Langenkamp's project, titled "Cover It Up," examined the hiding characteristics of different coatings technologies when applied at varying film thicknesses over different-colored aluminum substrates.
Rohm and Haas Co. announced plans to discontinue all manufacturing of Adhesives and Sealants and Organic Specialties products at the company's Moss Point, MS, chemicals plant by the end of this year.
ICI's Glidden Co., Cleveland, said its "Glidden Color Cruiser" interactive traveling exhibit is touring the country visiting Home Depot stores and Glidden paint-dealer locations around the United States.
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