Precision Gage & Tool Co., a business specializing in testing and manufacturing gages for a variety of industries, received national certification as a Women’s Business Enterprise by the Ohio River Valley Women’s Business Council, a regional certifying partner of the Women’s Business Enterprise National Council (WBENC).

The NOF Corp. announced that its worldwide group of anti-corrosion coatings companies have changed their company names. All companies of NOF’s Anti-Corrosion division are now part of the NOF Metal Coatings group.

OMNOVA Solutions has announced its 2009 Technology Award recipients. The annual award program recognizes exemplary technology-based contributions by associates in OMNOVA’s research and development, sales and marketing, technical service, operations, product management, and LEAN SixSigma organizations.

The 4th Wood Coatings and Substrate Conference, sponsored by the Piedmont Society for Coatings Technology, will be held at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro on Sept. 10, 2010.

The Kuwait Laboratory Technology Conference & Exhibition, a comprehensive multi-tracked conference and exhibition for the laboratory industry, will take place Nov. 30 – Dec. 1, 2010.

The School of Polymers and High Performance Materials at The University of Southern Mississippi is hosting the 38th Annual Waterborne Symposium.

Registration is now open for the SSCT Annual Meeting, scheduled for Sept. 26-29, 2010, at the Daytona Beach Hilton, FL. The theme for the meeting is “Racing to New Technology in Coatings.”

Aceto Corp. has announced several management changes.

Thomas Telser, President of Flint Group Flexographic Products, has been appointed Chairman – Packaging Segment.

Elcometer Inc. has hired Michael Riley as the Sales Manager for the United States and Canada.