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.
Cal Poly announced that Behr Process of Santa Ana, Calif., and its parent company, Masco Corp. of Taylor, Mich., have given a combined gift of $300,000 in support of Cal Poly's College of Science and Mathematics.
The Federation of Societies for Coatings Technology (FSCT) is extending the Call for Papers deadlines for the first two new Advancements in Coatings Series (ACSeries) programs: "Research Methods in the 21st Century: A Toolkit for Competitive Advantage" and "Nanotechnology in Coatings: Realizing the Potential."
NACD Immediate Past Chairman Thomas H. Coyne, president of George S. Coyne Chemical Co., Inc., Croydon, Pa., was awarded 2004 Distributor of the Year by the National Association of Chemical Distributors (NACD).
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