Louis A. Ruckgaber Jr., chairman and president of Egyptian Lacquer Manufacturing Co. Inc. and a longtime chairman and member of the National Paint & Coatings Association's Management Information Committee, died Sept. 24 in Columbia, TN, following a battle with cancer. He was 73.
The NPCA recently launched a program of lead-safety training sessions for remodeling, repair and painting activities with a seminar in Boston. Plans for programs in Albany, NY, and Baltimore were to be announced in the near future.
The U.S. EPA recently issued a national emission standard for hazardous air pollutants (NESHAP) for miscellaneous coatings-manufacturing processes, a rule that will limit emissions of hazardous air pollutants (HAPs) at major coatings-manufacturing facilities.
A circuit court judge in Chicago dismissed the city's lawsuit against a group of former manufacturers of lead paint and pigments in the latest in a series of legal victories for the industry in its defense against such suits.
The American Chemistry Council (ACC) has criticized a new draft of the European Union's sweeping chemicals-regulation proposal as "excessive and highly bureaucratic," and urged major changes in the plan.
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ASTM International, the voluntary standards development organization, recently announced the launch of a new Internet-based system designed to initiate, develop and track draft standards and revisions before and during their balloting stage.
The South Coast Air Quality Management District (SCAQMD) is seeking to enact very low VOC limits on additional types of architectural coatings in a proposal that could be approved by the district’s governing board as soon as Nov. 5.
The NPCA announced that its comprehensive industry market study, “U.S. Paint & Coatings Analysis (2002-2007),” is scheduled for publication in October.
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