Dymax Oligomers & Coatings has appointed Matthew Sheridan to Sales Manager, Oligomers and Coatings.

The Hydraulic Institute (HI), Parsippany, NJ, under the approval of the American National Standards Institute (ANSI), is seeking qualified individuals to participate in the review process of a new standard entitled Rotary Condition Monitoring.

The Canadian Paint and Coatings Association (CPCA) is offering a Diploma in Coatings Technology to members and non-members in the coatings industry in Canada and around the world.

A robotic paint-stripping system being developed by Carnegie Mellon University's National Robotics Engineering Center (NREC) and Concurrent Technologies Corp. (CTC) of Johnstown, PA, was named a Gold winner in the materials science category of the 2013 Edison Awards.

The Cradle to Cradle Products Innovation Institute, San Francisco, and Make it Right, New Orleans, are issuing a Product Innovation Challenge with $250,000 in cash prizes.

LANXESS posted lower earnings in the first quarter of 2013 due to a weak market environment, particularly in the tire and automotive industries.

AnCatt, Newark, DE, has developed an anti-corrosion coating platform using conductive polymer nano dispersion (CPND) to replace heavy-metal pigments such as chromate, lead and zinc.

PreKote Surface Pretreatment by Pantheon Enterprises, Phoenix, has been qualified to SAE International’s Aerospace Material Specification 3095A for airline exterior paint.

Croda Inc. is installing solar panels at its Atlas Point manufacturing facility in New Castle, DE.

Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) received the NACE International Distinguished Organization Award in recognition of outstanding contributions by an organization to the field of corrosion science or engineering.