TEGO Coating & Ink Additives, a business line of Degussa Corp., has appointed Deeks & Co. Inc. as its new distributor in the Southeast.

Ciba Specialty Chemicals has extended its color-management services to include color visualization of 3D objects.

PRP Systems, Inc., has completed the installation of a paint circulation and application test lab.

The Third Congress and International Exhibition of Paints and Inks: REPORT 2006 will take place September 6-8, 2006, at the Sheraton Hotel Buenos Aires, Argentina.

The Coatings Research Institute at Eastern Michigan University has announced its 2006 series of spring and fall short courses.

Southern Clay Products, Inc., appointed a network of industrial market distributors for the United States and Canada.

World demand for architectural paints is forecast to rise 3.7 percent per year through 2009 to 19.8 million metric tons, valued at $39.3 billion.

Recent deaths:

Joseph F. Indihar Helped Pioneer Auto Clearcoats

CHEMCENTRAL's Jon D. Stanley

The NPCA reports that the Northeast Ozone Transport Commission (OTC) announced a new initiative targeting, among others, reducing volatile organic compound (VOC) emissions from paint and coatings in the OTC region.

Now in its ninth year, this magazine's Coatings for Plastics symposium, to be held June 5-7, 2006, at the MSU Management Education Center in Troy, Mich., is one of the few dedicated entirely to this important topic.