On October 31, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., coatings industry volunteers will work side by side on the Habitat for Humanity building project in New Orleans.

The 2006 International Automotive Weathering Technology Seminar in Guangzhou, China, held August 31-September 1, enabled the exchange of weathering research information between Chinese and American automotive manufacturers and suppliers.

Atlas Material Testing Technology has made enhancements to the Xenotest® Alpha, renamed Alpha+, to improve ease of use and instrument control.

Trojan Powder Coating, Bayshore, NY, has been licensed to provide the Decoral Process, which can provide graphically enhanced coatings featuring the weight and cost of aluminum with the look of high end wood, marble and granite.

We are starting to manufacture and sell our patent pending, ergonomically adjustable computer workstations. We are interested in the powder coating process for wood substrates such as high-density fiberboard (HDF) that have an even core and face. Do powders for wood substrates still need refrigeration? We would also like to find a powder coater of wood substrates in Northern California or near Reno, NV, that does piece work.

As it states in the preface, this textbook has been designed to familiarize technicians, engineers and chemists with the practice of formulating paints. Authors Müller and Poth set the stage for obtaining a clear understanding of coatings formulation in the first three chapters of this new textbook by providing a foundation for the technology before delving into the specifics of resin technology and coating types. Film formation, pigment dispersion and the basic calculations for characterizing a formulation are presented in an easy-to-read format.

Schroeder Industries: The SC line of automatic self-cleaning filters can remove solid contamination from process fluids and protect the integrity of high-grade components that depend on low-viscosity, water or water-based lubricants.

DeFelsko Corp.: The PosiTector 200 coating thickness gage for wood, concrete, plastic and other non-metal substrates has been redesigned to include new features, new measurement ranges and new models.

Adwest Technologies, Inc.: The new RETOX® LFC modular regenerative thermal oxidizers (RTOs) are designed to provide cost-effective VOC abatement for large flow capacity (LFC), VOC-laden paint and industrial finishing processes from 60,000 to 80,000 cfm flowrates with individual units.

Hans WEBER: This company will display its polishing, deburring and slag grinding machines at FABTECH, October 31-November 2, 2006.