The program for PRA International’s Wood Coatings Congress has been finalized and is available on the congress website.

The European Coatings Show and European Coatings Congress 2011 will again transform the Exhibition Centre Nuremberg into the essential get-together for experts from the production of high-grade, competitive coatings, paints, sealants, construction chemicals and adhesives.

IntertechPira has confirmed several key speakers for Future of Pigments 2010. The conference will take place Oct. 18-20, 2010, at the Hilton Newark Penn Station, Newark, NJ.

The 11th Coatings Asia Markets is back for 2010. It will take place in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, from Oct. 13-14, 2010.

Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz has given permission to construct a new laboratory building for the King Abdullah Institute for Nanotechnology (KAIN) that will run under King Saud University (KSU) at Riyadh Technology Valley.

Dionex Corp. has announced that its new online library of searchable chromatographic applications, the D-Library, is now available on its website free of charge.

BYK USA has appointed Dowd and Guild Inc. as its distributor for the Pacific Northwest and western regions of the United States.

In its Monday, June 21 edition, USA Today carried an editorial by Andrew N. Liveris, Chairman and CEO, The Dow Chemical Co., which outlines his company’s vision for an advanced manufacturing plan to rejuvenate the U.S. economy, re-grow jobs and allow the manufacturing industry to compete successfully again in the global marketplace.

Nuplex Resins, Louisville, KY, has announced the appointment of Gautam Haldankar as Manager, Applications and Technical Service Laboratory, effective July 1, 2010.

Deacom Inc., producer of the DEACOM Integrated Accounting and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Software System, announced that Amanda Mackedanz has joined the company as a Senior Product Consultant.