RadTech, The Association for UV and EB Technology, has opened nominations for the biennial UV/EB End User Emerging Technology Awards, which will be presented at the RadTech UV/EB Technology Expo & Conference, May 4-7, 2008, at McCormick Place in Chicago, IL.

Paul Skelton has joined Carolina Process Control, LLC (CPC) as the new vice president of sales and operations.

Motoman Inc. has hired Trevor Jones as senior general manager of Yaskawa Motoman Canada (Missisauga, Ontario).

Allied PhotoChemical has hired Ron Plooy as UV chemist as part of its internal expansion into the rapidly growing UV coating marketplace.

Joseph M. Gantner and Christopher J. Hummel have joined the BASF Functional Polymers business. BASF also has appointed Dr. Christof Herion as the director of production for its Intermediates unit.

Specialty coatings formulator and manufacturer SEI Chemical has been contractually appointed by Clariant Corp. as the first authorized agent worldwide for Clariant’s polysilazane resins and products through its KiON® division. The technology offers optically clear, anti-stick, heat and UV stable properties in single component formulas.

Greenstone Holdings, Inc. is the exclusive US agent for Permeate™ HS-100, a corrosion protection sealer developed and manufactured by D&D Corporation in Japan.

The new PDV-2e/MM multi-source portable desktop viewer from Paul N. Gardner Co. can be used for client color presentations, lab applications and other situations where color is critically viewed.

icotec ag in Altstätten has received the 2007Materialica Design Award in the “surfaces” category in Munich, Germany, for the functional coating of composite implants made of carbon fiber-reinforced PEEK.

Xiom Corp., Long Island, NY, has developed a new high-performance, environmentally safe, self-cleaning, marine vessel hull protective coating. The new “stay-clean,” patent-pending powder coating for both steel and fiberglass boat bottoms is designed to reduce maintenance costs and fuel consumption caused by marine growth.