The Detroit Society for Coatings Technology issued a call for papers for the society's 30th annual FOCUS Conference, scheduled for May 5, 2005, at the MSU Management Center, Troy, MI. The conference carries a theme of "Racing to a High-Performance Finish."
Testimony was under way in a $1.4-billion asbestos trial in Angleton, TX, in which Kelly-Moore Paint Co. is seeking a verdict against Union Carbide Corp., now a subsidiary of The Dow Chemical Co.
Stanislaw (Stanley) B. Skora, a developer of additives for powder coatings and founder of Estron Chemical Inc., died May 27 in New York after a long battle with cancer. He was 69.
The NPCA and its California Paint Council are "intensely engaged" in an effort to scale back the state of California's "Environmentally Preferable Products" Database initiative.
The major suppliers of titanium dioxide (TiO2) pigments, citing strong economic growth rates and rising demand, recently announced the latest of several price-increase moves taken since the start of the year. Price hikes of 6¢/lb. were announced for the United States, effective Oct. 1, with comparable increases announced for other regions of the world.
Kerr-McGee Chemical L.L.C. announced plans to shut down sulfate titanium dioxide (TiO2) pigment production at the company's Savannah, GA, site in a move the company said would take effect by the end of September.
ASTM International, the U.S.-based standards-development organization, announced the signing of a memorandum of understanding with the national standards body of China, the Standardization Administration of the People's Republic of China (SAC).
In a significant development for the coatings industry in the state with the nation's toughest environmental regulations on coatings, California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger announced the appointment of Ellis Paint Co. President and CEO Sandra (Sandy) Berg to the California Air Resources Board (CARB).
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