Citing the launch of a growing number of "green building" initiatives that could place a range of new environmental demands on coatings products, the NPCA is inviting manufacturers to participate in an industry panel that would present the views of coatings formulators and producers on these programs.
An increasingly complex global industry structure has resulted in the concentration of coatings manufacturing in the hands of various industrial companies and private-investment firms as well as the giant chemical and "brand-management" concerns, a new industry study concludes.
Intertech announced plans for two pigment-industry conferences, "TiO2 2005" and "High-Performance and Functional Pigments 2005," scheduled for early next year.
The Detroit Society for Coatings Technology issued a call for papers for the society's 30th annual FOCUS Conference, scheduled for May 5, 2005, at the MSU Management Center, Troy, MI. The conference carries a theme of "Racing to a High-Performance Finish."
Testimony was under way in a $1.4-billion asbestos trial in Angleton, TX, in which Kelly-Moore Paint Co. is seeking a verdict against Union Carbide Corp., now a subsidiary of The Dow Chemical Co.
Stanislaw (Stanley) B. Skora, a developer of additives for powder coatings and founder of Estron Chemical Inc., died May 27 in New York after a long battle with cancer. He was 69.
The NPCA and its California Paint Council are "intensely engaged" in an effort to scale back the state of California's "Environmentally Preferable Products" Database initiative.
The major suppliers of titanium dioxide (TiO2) pigments, citing strong economic growth rates and rising demand, recently announced the latest of several price-increase moves taken since the start of the year. Price hikes of 6¢/lb. were announced for the United States, effective Oct. 1, with comparable increases announced for other regions of the world.
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