Flexible displays, cost-efficient solar cells for a new era of energy production, futuristic lighting at home all require thin layers with specific properties. Scientists at the INM – Leibniz Institute for New Materials are exploring new routes to such coatings in NanoSPEKT, a project funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF).
Emerald Specialties, a business group of Emerald Performance Materials, has appointed SiWax Group, based in Milan, Italy, and Madrid, Spain, to become the exclusive distributor for its line of Carnapol™ synthetic waxes in Europe.
Dr. John Hook, retired Senior Research Fellow at Dow Coatings Materials (formerly Rohm & Haas), will deliver the Mattiello Memorial Lecture at the American Coatings Conference (ACC), April 7-9, 2014, in Atlanta.
The British Coatings Federation (BCF) has received a record number of entries for both the BCF Sustainable Innovation and the Excellence in Training awards. Winners will be announced, along with the Student of the Year Award and Coatings Care Awards, on Tuesday November 12.
Resinate Materials Group Inc., a provider of polyurethane dispersion technology to the coatings industry, announced that Dr. Shakti Mukerjee has joined the company as Director of Product Development for Polyols and PUDs.
The British Coatings Federation (BCF) in a new collaboration with the Vincentz Network, publishers of European Coatings Journal, announced the opening of a major new training initiative for the global coatings industry and its supply chain, called The Coatings Training Institute.