Dow Coating Materials’ scientists presented “Coatings Industry Sustainability – Trends, Challenges and Opportunities” at the Ninth Annual Oil & Colour Chemists Association (OCCA) Seminar in Manchester, UK.
Momentive Performance Materials, Albany, NY, has announced the expansion of Archway Sales, St. Louis, MO, as an authorized distributor of its specialty silanes and coatings portfolio into Texas, Oklahoma and Louisiana.
Evonik’s Colorants Product Line is responding to customer demands for a shorter time to market with a million-euro investment in high-throughput experimentation (HTE) technology.
The University of Minnesota is offering a Coating Process Fundamentals short course. The course will take place June 8-10, 2010, at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN.
Pittcon 2010 reported that 16,876 attendees from 87 countries participated in the annual conference and exposition, which was held in Orlando, FL, Feb. 28 to March 5, 2010.
ASTM is looking for participants to help study the properties of black glass. ASTM Subcommittee D1.26 on Optical Properties of Coatings maintains a standard (D2805) that specifies black glass panels in the test method and refers to “black Carrara glass” in the footnote. Current practice is to use black glass, but not necessarily Carrara.