Philip L. Pesola, executive vice president of Delta Laboratories, Inc., Ocala, Fla., received the Industry Achievement Award during the National Paint & Coatings Association's (NPCA) 2005 Annual Meeting in Cleveland, Oct. 23-25.
Two leading manufacturers of product measurement and quality control equipment - EGS Gauging Inc. of Billerica, Mass., and NDC Infrared Engineering, Inc., of Irwindale, Calif. - have been awarded funding by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to develop new technologies that reduce industry's reliance on radioactive isotopes.
The Federation of Societies for Coatings Technology (FSCT) has announced that FSCT Past-President Thomas E. Hill, president and CEO of The Coatings Alliance, has been named the 2005 recipient of the organization's highest honor - the George Baugh Heckel Award.
In Boston, the international consultancy Frost & Sullivan granted its "2005 Product Leadership of the Year Award" to BASF for developing a pellet form of triphenylphosphine (TPP).
Bayer MaterialScience LLC is acquiring Polythane Systems, Inc. (PSI), of Spring, Texas, a leading supplier of spray polyurethane foam roofing systems in the United States.
Deltech Properties has purchased the Newark, N.J.-based assets of Adco Chemical Co. Adco was the former manufacturing arm of UR-Cryl Polymer Corp. and Thibaut and Walker. Deltech Resins, an affiliate, recently acquired Ur-Cryl Polymer Corp., and Thibaut and Walker.