The EPA's recently published 2004 "Sector Strategies Performance Report" recognizes significant environmental progress made by the paint and coatings industry in the areas of reduced air emissions and environmental-management programs.
With some variations, a group of five Mid-Atlantic states and the District of Columbia have finalized stringent new VOC regulations on architectural and industrial maintenance coatings, with a set of VOC limits as low as 100 grams per liter scheduled to go into effect Jan. 1.
Citing the launch of a growing number of "green building" initiatives that could place a range of new environmental demands on coatings products, the NPCA is inviting manufacturers to participate in an industry panel that would present the views of coatings formulators and producers on these programs.
An increasingly complex global industry structure has resulted in the concentration of coatings manufacturing in the hands of various industrial companies and private-investment firms as well as the giant chemical and "brand-management" concerns, a new industry study concludes.
Intertech announced plans for two pigment-industry conferences, "TiO2 2005" and "High-Performance and Functional Pigments 2005," scheduled for early next year.
The Detroit Society for Coatings Technology issued a call for papers for the society's 30th annual FOCUS Conference, scheduled for May 5, 2005, at the MSU Management Center, Troy, MI. The conference carries a theme of "Racing to a High-Performance Finish."
Testimony was under way in a $1.4-billion asbestos trial in Angleton, TX, in which Kelly-Moore Paint Co. is seeking a verdict against Union Carbide Corp., now a subsidiary of The Dow Chemical Co.
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