The staff and facilities of a marine paint-testing center in Southeastern India affiliated with U.S.-based research and development company Poseidon Ocean Sciences, Inc., survived the deadly tsunami of Dec. 26, 2004.
RadTech EUROPE 2005, an exhibition and conference on UV/EB curing, is scheduled for Oct. 18-20, 2005, at the International Convention Centre in Barcelona, Spain.
Imports of phthalo green, a very popular ink in the packaging and printing business, have been halted because of trace levels of the banned chemical hexachlorobenzene (HCB), according to the Canadian Plastics Industry Association.
Nanophase Technologies Corp., Romeoville, Ill., a technology leader in nanomaterials and nanoengineered products, has been named for the second consecutive year to the prestigious Technology Fast 50 Program for Chicagoland.
COATING 2005, scheduled for September 19 - 22, 2005, in Indianapolis and reported to be the only conference and trade show devoted to the end user of industrial coatings, will feature an entire afternoon where the show floor will be "unopposed."
On December 10, 2004, Howard Ellerhorst Jr. died at age 84 of heart failure. Mr. Ellerhorst held several high-level management positions in the coatings industry, including his creation of The CHEMARK Consulting Group, Inc.
Akzo Nobel and the ICCO (the Dutch Inter-Church Organization for Development Cooperation) have officially signed a cooperation agreement to jointly support two HIV/AIDS projects in the Johannesburg area of South Africa.
In recent years, there has been significant interest in using surface coatings as an alternative to steels in erosive conditions, with a view to maximizing the tribological properties of the coating and the substrate material.
On Dec. 14, the National Paint & Coatings Association (NPCA) filed a lawsuit in the Superior Court of California challenging California's fee program for volatile organic compound (VOC) emissions authorized by legislative initiative AB 10X and enacted by California Gov. Gray Davis in March 2003.
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