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This month’s Industry News department features a new report by market research firm RNCOS on the global nanotechnology market.

It has been a bumpy four years since I began following the top global and North American coatings companies.

It is hard to believe that it has been two years since the last American Coatings Show (ACS).

As part of a recent three-day East Coast trip with PCI’spublisher, I had the chance to visit the Dow Coatings Materials (DCM) facility in Spring House, PA.

The 39th annual Waterborne Symposium was held February 13-17 in New Orleans.

The world’s top automakers unveiled their latest models at the recent North American International Auto Show in Detroit.

For several years now, nanotechnology has been on the forefront of research at both the academic and corporate levels.

2011 has seen some exciting new technologies for the coatings industry.

I recently had a very interesting telephone conversation with David P. Nick, President and CEO of DPNA International, Inc. In the course of talking about this month’s ABRAFATI event in

The 2011 Coatings Trends & Technologies (CTT) conference, a technical symposium organized by PCI Magazine and the Chicago Society for Coatings Technology, took place September 13-14 at the Doubletree Hotel in Oak Brook, IL. Attendees and exhibitors alike raved about the new, expanded venue for the event, which included two large ballrooms for the double-track sessions, as well as a 7500-square-foot ballroom for the exhibitors to display their products. The conference had 248 registered attendees and 49 exhibitors, both up from last year.