According to the consulting firm Kusumgar, Nerlfi & Growney, U.S. consumption of radiation-cured printing inks in 2005 was $353 MM. Sales dollars grew at a 4% annual rate since 2000, slightly less than volume growth.

The Pittsburgh Conference announced that Pittcon 2007 would be moved from New Orleans to Chicago.

Intertech Corp. is holding its 11th conference High-Performance and Functional Pigments on June 5-7, 2006.

Prof. Byron Christmas, University of Houston-Downtown, received the sixth annual RadTech President's Award at the RadTech Winter Meeting in Miami.

Three new courses from Brookfield Engineering are designed to help laboratory operators get a handle on viscosity and texture measurement.

Nanomaterials have received a very good reception within the Western European coatings industry, and many paint companies are in the process of evaluating the potential benefits of these materials in coatings science, according to a recent report by Information Research, London.

Now in its ninth year, the Coatings for Plastics Symposium, organized under the auspices of PCI magazine, is one of the few symposiums dedicated entirely to this subject.

Joseph F. Indihar, age 62, of Richmond, Va., died November 1, 2005.

RadTech, the association for UV and EB technology, welcomes new board members.

In a move that will aid industry, on Dec. 13, 2005, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) signed the final rule deleting methyl ethyl ketone (MEK) as a Hazardous Air Pollutant (HAP) under the Clean Air Act (CAA).