On behalf of the PCI staff I want to take this opportunity to wish our readers, advertisers and contributing authors a very happy holiday season. We are successful because of your continued support, encouragement and feedback.
This issue has a wide variety of industry-important features and again emphasizes the focus on lower VOCs through the use of new polymer and additive technology, low-energy curing and environmental concerns.
Its fall already and, as we wind down this year, I find myself looking forward to 2009, as I think it bodes great technological advances. The last 12 months have seen a consistent increase in “green” and “sustainability” themes. Some of this is pure market spin, but a great deal of it is not, and our industry is rising to the challenge of introducing eco-friendly and bio-based products, sustainability, green technology, nanotechnology and green nanotechnology.
The difference between ‘can’ and ‘cannot’ is just three little letters. Letters that can change your business and your life. Winston Churchill once said, “A pessimist sees the difficulty in
If you were looking to learn, to grow, to change your business practices, to formulate, to network or just to share ideas, RadTech 2008 was the right location.
The American Coatings Show and Conference premieres in Charlotte, NC,
with the Trade Show taking place from June 3-5 and the Conference from
June 2-4, 2008. The new American trade show for the coatings industry,
which is hosted by NPCA and Vincentz Network, and organized by
NürnbergMesse North America, will emulate its successful model, the
European Coatings Show.
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today’s world I think we are sometimes overwhelmed and taken over by the spin
and the buzz words – nano-anything, ‘smart’, sustainability, and of course
‘green’. I am not opposed to these terms – they are good – but I am opposed to
their inaccurate use, to the hype that is sometimes associated and not
warranted, and to their exploitive overuse.
Over 120 attendees and 25 exhibitors set their sights on Chicago for the
10th Annual Coatings for Plastics Symposium. The two-day event was
rather intense, as it was scheduled with 22 papers covering aspects of coatings
for plastics
The biannual Nürnberg Congress, held in conjunction
with the European Coatings Show in May 2007, hit an all-time high in terms of
attendees, presentation quality, enthusiasm and a pervasive sense of R&D
excitement.
