Welch Allyn Lighting Products has developed a 24-watt ultraviolet (UV) high-intensity discharge (HID) Sōlarc® metal halide lamp that provides intense, elliptically focused light in the UVA and blue, 320- to 500-nm range.

The new compact Excel 3000 Powder Spray Booth from Nordson Corp. is designed to give users the performance capability to meet varying production requirements in a smaller overall footprint. The booth features plug-and-spray technology for quick installation and startup, a compact design that allows for faster color change, and a low base height for easy access.

The NanoSteel® Co., Inc., a developer of nanostructured steel alloy surface technologies for industrial applications, has named Michael Quinlan as vice president, sales and marketing. Quinlan will be based at the company’s corporate headquarters in Providence, R.I.

Wagner Industrial Solutions held an open house on May 14 at its facilities in Elgin, IL. More than 100 systems integrators, suppliers, associates and members of the trade press toured the liquid and powder coating facilities and had a firsthand opportunity to try out Wagner’s newest products.

DuBois Chemicals is participating at the National Environmental Partnership Summit, held May 19-22, 2008 in Baltimore, MD, at the Sheraton Baltimore City Center Hotel.

Global tanker owner-operator AET has entered into a partnership with Nippon Paint to trial the manufacturer’s latest low-friction (LF), anti-fouling (AF) coating on AET vessels. The innovative LF-Sea AF Paint is expected to reduce fuel consumption by 4%, resulting in lower CO₂, SO_x and NO_x emissions.

Exousia Advanced Materials, Inc. has passed its Importation Tests with the National Commodity Testing Bureau of China, which will allow the company to ship high-performance industrial coatings from its AEGEON Plant in Texas into the People's Republic of China.

BASF Coatings has started up its new production site for paints in Russia. The new facility at Pavlovski Posad, 60 kilometers east of Moscow, has an annual production capacity of 6,000 metric tons of paints (basecoats and clearcoats). The new site will supply customers in the burgeoning Russian automotive market with high-quality coatings.

Soliant has begun offering precision clean-room laminating services with its new custom roll stock lamination equipment. The company reportedly developed the technology with in-house resources after failing to find suitable equipment to laminate its Class A decorative paintfilms and bright films.

PPG Asia/Pacific is donating RMB 500,000 through the Red Cross Society of China to help purchase emergency equipment for the earthquake-ravaged Sichuan region. In addition, thousands of employees from PPG Asia/Pacific plants, trading companies, offices, labs and joint ventures are donating to a special account the company created to support earthquake relief.