The Southern Society of Coatings Technology Annual Meeting, "Surviving the Storms of Change," will be held on April 17-20, 2005, at the Beau Rivage Resort and Casino, in Biloxi, Miss.
Clarke Boyce passed away suddenly at the age of 78. Mr. Boyce was a member of the FSCT and the Toronto Society for some 53 years and was continuously involved in their activities.
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.