Brookfield Engineering, Middleboro, MA, has announced the launch of its latest journal site, TextureAnalysis.com.

A number of financial news organizations are reporting that DuPont is considering the sale of its performance coatings division. The division includes automotive coatings and a small powder coatings division.

Skip Klatt, long-time VP of Sales for American Chemet, passed away November 21, 2011, after an 18-month battle with lymphoma and leukemia

Charles "Chuck” Alan Piske, 55, of Belvidere, IL, passed away Wednesday, November 23, 2011, in his home.

Royal Adhesives & Sealants (Royal), a portfolio company of Arsenal Capital Partners (Arsenal), and Vertis Communications (Vertis) announced that Royal will acquire substantially all of the assets of Vertis' indirect wholly-owned subsidiary, Webcraft Chemicals, which operates under the name Craig Adhesives & Coatings (Craig).

RPM International Inc. announced that its RPM Building Solutions Group (RPM BSG) has signed an agreement to acquire FEMA Farben + Putze GmbH (FEMA GmbH) of Ettlingen, Germany.

Optimism for the coatings industry was the hallmark of ABRAFATI 2011, held November 21-23, 2011, in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Increasing interest in the various uses of electrical contacts is the leading impetus for the development of a proposed new standard, ASTM WK34423, Specification for Electrodeposited Coatings of Palladium-Cobalt Alloy for Engineering Use.

According to a new BAC report recently published by MarketPublishers.com, demand for acrylic resins in the European Union (EU) is trending downward.

Just a month after its launch, the Mastersizer 3000 laser diffraction particle size analyzer from Malvern Instruments was one of the winners at the Powtech Innovation Awards presented on October 11, at a ceremony in Nürnberg, Germany.