Environment Canada’s recently completed evaluation of the VOC Concentration Limits for Architectural Coatings Regulations reveals that the Canadian paint and coatings industry has significantly reduced low-level emissions over the past four years.
The Centre for Process Innovation (CPI) is working with major specialty chemical manufacturer Croda Europe, NiTech Solutions and The University of Cambridge’s Institute for Manufacturing on a collaborative research and development project to develop a novel method for the continuous production of a range of market-leading surfactants.
In an effort to prevent and deter crimes that put the lives and the health of workers at risk, the Departments of Justice and Labor announced a plan to more effectively prosecute such crimes.
The Hydraulic Institute (HI), along with member companies KCF Technologies, Engineered Software, Flowserve and NIDEC, sponsored a series of Penn State University Capstone Projects that challenged college engineering students to field solutions on complex pump engineering projects.
The British Coatings Federation has started targeting the Asian market with its unique distance-learning proposition for technicians and research and development staff in the global coatings community.
A research effort led by the University of Colorado Boulder to develop an inexpensive, “do-it-yourself” coating to retrofit energy-inefficient windows in residential and commercial buildings has been given a $4 million boost over three years by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE).
The Canadian Paint and Coatings Association (CPCA) applauds the Government of Ontario for its desire to move forward to achieve greater waste reduction in Ontario.
On December 1, the merger between the Philadelphia-based Chemical Heritage Foundation (CHF) and the Life Sciences Foundation (LSF), based in San Francisco, was finalized, making CHF and LSF one organization.
The British Coatings Federation (BCF) has launched an in-depth report on the UK coatings industry’s progress in addressing the sustainability challenges faced by the sector, unveiling the report at its annual awards dinner in Cheshire on November 25.
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