An SGM (Shanghai General Motors) Excelle automobile painted with BASF waterborne basecoats has rolled off the General Motors assembly line in Shanghai, marking the first use of waterborne basecoat technology in the history of the Chinese automobile industry.
The Coatings Research Institute (CRI) of Eastern Michigan University is seeking technical papers to be considered for presentation at the Smart Coatings 2006 Symposium to be held Feb. 15-17, 2006, at the Grosvenor Resort, Orlando, Fla.
The State Attorneys Generals (AGs) - exercising their compliance authority under the "Lead Exposure Warnings and Education and Training Programs Agreement between State Attorneys General and the National Paint and Coatings Association, Inc. (NPCA)" - have identified a specific concern that the point-of-sale brochures were not found at the select places monitored.
Creo Inc. and XINK Laboratories Ltd. presented a new class of secure flexographic radio frequency identification (RFID) antenna printing inks at the PISEC 6th World Product & Image Security Convention, held in Vienna, Austria, recently.
The UMR Coatings Institute invites companies who have interest in coatings to consider sponsoring a University of Missouri - Rolla (UMR) student for a summer intern position.
At it spring meeting in Arizona, NPCA's board of directors and executive committee took action on several initiatives, including the association's Architectural and Industrial Maintenance (AIM) Coatings - Volatile Organic Compounds (VOC) policy, a federal legislative strategy to address childhood lead poisoning and further study of a possible national system for the management of post-consumer paint.
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