Attendees at the recent FIN-X Conference & Expo for Industrial Finishers, held September 17-20 in Indianapolis, IN, came from 42 U.S. states plus Washington, DC; four Canadian provinces and 12 foreign countries. Registered attendees plus exhibit personnel combined for a final registration count of 2,320.
RPM International Inc. has promoted four executives to vice president. Effective immediately, the promotions include: Russell L. Gordon to vice president – corporate planning; Janeen B. Kastner to vice president – corporate benefits and risk management; Randell McShepard to vice president – public affairs; and Thomas C. Sullivan, Jr. to vice president – corporate development.
Columbia Chemical will be opening the doors to a new headquarters and a new location in 2008. Ground was broken in August on a nearby four-acre land parcel in Brunswick, OH, and construction has begun on a new 44,000 square-foot building.
The Grieve Corp. has published a 100-page, full-color catalog of ovens and furnaces featuring new equipment, new market applications and an increased factory-trained sales representative network.
US Chemical Storage manufactures custom hazardous material storage buildings for containment and handling of paints, solvents and other chemical products.
Dow Corning's Plasma Solutions group has licensed its atmospheric pressure plasma liquid deposition (APPLD) technology for commercial coating on one of its SE-1000 AP4 systems to Weinheim, Germany-based Freudenberg Forschungsdienste KG. The APPLD technology allows users to engineer the surface of virtually any substrate by applying extremely thin coatings of various materials that chemically bond to the underlying substrate.