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The following appointments were made recently.

The Third Congress and International Exhibition of Paints and Inks: REPORT 2006 will take place September 6-8, 2006, at the Sheraton Hotel Buenos Aires, Argentina.

The Coatings Research Institute at Eastern Michigan University has announced its 2006 series of spring and fall short courses.

World demand for architectural paints is forecast to rise 3.7 percent per year through 2009 to 19.8 million metric tons, valued at $39.3 billion.

Recent deaths:

Joseph F. Indihar Helped Pioneer Auto Clearcoats

CHEMCENTRAL's Jon D. Stanley

The NPCA reports that the Northeast Ozone Transport Commission (OTC) announced a new initiative targeting, among others, reducing volatile organic compound (VOC) emissions from paint and coatings in the OTC region.

Now in its ninth year, this magazine's Coatings for Plastics symposium, to be held June 5-7, 2006, at the MSU Management Education Center in Troy, Mich., is one of the few dedicated entirely to this important topic.

The Federation of Societies for Coatings Technology has selected Jonathan W. Martin, group leader of the Polymeric Materials Group within the Building and Fire Research Laboratory of NIST, to deliver the Joseph J. Mattiello Memorial Lecture during the organization's 84th Annual Meeting.

please note that DuPont was the first company to commercialize fluorinated additive technology, as reported by PCI in September 1999.

The pivotal role of antimicrobial agents in ensuring in-can and dry-film preservation of paints, coatings and adhesives (PCA) demands that manufacturers have an up-to-date picture of the antimicrobial agents (AMA) offered in the European market.