R. Emmett Carroll Jr., CEO of R.E. Carroll Inc., passed away on Monday, November 15, 2010, at the age of 81.

The Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME) is partnering with aerospace and defense OEMs to sponsor the AeroDef Manufacturing Exposition and Conference, to be held April 5-7, 2011, at the Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, CA.

EuroNanoForum will take place at the Budapest Congress and World Trade Center in Budapest, Hungary, from May 30 to June 1, 2011.

Coatings Trends & Technologies (CTT) is scheduled for September 13-14, 2011, at the Doubletree Chicago in Oak Brook, IL.

The Government of Canada is proposing a new regulatory instrument to address releases of bisphenol A (BPA) through industrial effluent.

The Powder Coating Forum is scheduled for June 7-8, 2011, at the The Westin, Columbus, OH.

The Polymers and Coatings Program at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, CA, will offer a Polymers and Coatings Introductory Short Course during the week of February 7-11, 2011.

The National Coil Coating Association (NCCA) is now offering its “Key to the Toolbox” pocket guide, a free publication designed to unlock the NCCA’s array of online educational resources.

The Hydraulic Institute has updated the 2000 edition of the ANSI/HI standard on sealless centrifugal pumps and published ANSIHI 5.1-5.6 – 2010 Sealless Rotodynamic Pumps for Nomenclature, Definitions, Application, Operation and Test.

A new market research report by Fu­ture Markets Inc. provides a detailed discussion of the global nanocomposites market. Global revenues for polymeric nanocomposites were approximately $390 million in 2009.