PPG Industries broke ground on September 6 in McCarran, NV, on a 22-acre site in the Tahoe-Reno Industrial Center (about 15 miles east of Reno) to build a 95,000-square-foot architectural coatings manufacturing facility.
The Federation of Societies for Coatings Technology (FSCT) has issued a Call for Papers for the "Coating Wood and Wood Composites: Designing for Durability" Conference. Scheduled for July 23-25, 2007, in Seattle, WA, this program is part of the FSCT's continuing Advancements in Coatings Series (ACSeries).
The EHC Series portable, digital, hand-held ultrasonic thickness gages from Paul N. Gardner Co., Inc. are designed to measure the remaining wall thickness of primarily steel structures with or without coatings using an echo to echo feature from .0008 to 20 in. (.20 to 508 mm), depending on the probe.
Q-Lab Corp. (formerly Q-Panel Lab Products) broke ground September 1 on a 72,000-square-foot expansion of its Cleveland, OH, headquarters and manufacturing facility that will more than double the company's current space.
The board of directors of X-Rite, Inc. has implemented the planned chief executive officer succession that was outlined when the company announced the Amazys acquisition.
Wheelabrator Group's LaGrange, GA, manufacturing facility was recently named a winner of the 2005 Outstanding Safety Award, presented by the North American Die Casting Association (NADCA).
Sherwin-Williams MIL-DTL-64159 Type II Waterborne CARC is a new generation of waterborne chemical agent resistant coatings (CARC) from Sherwin-Williams Chemical Coatings for use by the military and defense industry.
Device Technologies, Inc. (DTI), has opened a new, 18,000 sq. ft. facility in Southborough, MA, for the electrostatic powder coat finishing of wire, cable, metal strip, stampings and other linear, reel-to-reel products.
More than 75 volunteers from Chicago area businesses who are Chicago Paint and Coatings Association (CPCA) members provided a fresh coat of paint to the Robert R. McCormick Boys & Girls Club in Chicago during the CPCA's Tenth Annual "Paint a Brighter Chicago" community service project in August.