Pacific Northwest Society to host 2006 Northwest Coatings Fest.The Vancouver Section of the Pacific Northwest Society has announced plans for the upcoming Northwest Coatings Fest, May 4-6, 2006. This annual event will be held at the Delta Victoria Ocean Pointe Resort and Spa, a four-diamond resort on the waterfront in Victoria's inner harbor. The PNWSCT PNWSCT Pacific Northwest Society for Coatings Technology Technical Program will be held all day on Friday and on Saturday morning. The planned presentations include: Friday, May 5 "Inorganic Core/Shell Nanoparticles for Coatings"--Janos Hajas, BYK-Chemie "High Solids, Waterborne, and Latex: Three Roads to Compliance"--Guy Lopez, Hexion Specialty Chemicals Hexion Specialty Chemicals, Inc. is a Fortune 500 company based in Columbus, Ohio that is the world’s largest producer of binder, adhesive, coating and ink resins for industrial applications. "Latest Advances in Two-Component Waterborne Polyurethanes"--Shelley Parkerson, LANXESS "Antimicrobial Coatings"--Dr. Wolfgang Lindner, Troy Corporation "Zonyl Fluoroadditives for Coatings"--Dr. Jean Meng, DuPont "Not the Same Old Polymer"--John Du, BYK-Chemie, Inc. "Use of Synthetic Silicates to Stabilize Color in Water-based Wood Stains"--Terry Brennan, Southern Clay Products "Viscosity Stability in Waterborne Coatings"--Daniel Saucy and Carol Zeszotarski, Rohm and Haas Rohm and Haas Company (NYSE: ROH), a Philadelphia, Pennsylvania based company, manufactures miscellaneous materials. A Fortune 500 Company, Rohm and Haas employs more than 17,000 people in 27 countries. The annual sales revenue of Rohm and Haas stands at about USD 8.2 billion. Co. "Use of Nonionic Associative Thickeners to Improve the ICI (language) ICI - An extensible, interpretated language by Tim Long with syntax similar to C. ICI adds high-level garbage-collected associative data structures, exception handling, sets, regular expressions, and dynamic arrays. Viscosity of Paints"--Tony Adams and Ronald Brashear, Southern Clay Products "Formulating with Tertiary Butyl Acetate"--Daniel Giles, Reichhold "Mineral Pigments for Improved Latex Primers"--Forrest Hentz, Luzenac Saturday, May 6 "Engineered Low-VOC Acrylic Polymer Emulsions: A Novel Tool to Improve Titanium Dioxide Utilization in Flat Paint Formulations"--Dr. Subu Natesan, BASF BASF Bar Association of San Francisco (since 1872; San Francisco, California) BASF Badische Anilin und Soda Fabrik (German chemical products company) BASF Builders Association of South Florida "Importance of Color Evaluation in the Early Review Process of Raw Materials"--Bill Heiden, EPS-CCA "A Novel Technology: The Multi-Functional Siloxane-Based Gemini Surfactant Surfactant Definition Surfactant is a complex naturally occurring substance made of six lipids (fats) and four proteins that is produced in the lungs. It can also be manufactured synthetically. "--Nicholas Wood, Degussa "Use of Wax Emulsions in Paints, Coatings, and Inks"--Dr. Marty Cohen cohen or kohen (Hebrew: “priest”) Jewish priest descended from Zadok (a descendant of Aaron), priest at the First Temple of Jerusalem. The biblical priesthood was hereditary and male. , Michelman "Formulating Architectural Coatings for the Future"--Ronald Grieb, Dow Additional event highlights include the Golf Tournament and evening Social on Thursday; the Social Guest Program on Friday; and the Society Business Meeting, International Competition, Suppliers Cocktail Party, and Banquet on Saturday. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] To register, visit the Society website at www.pnwsct.org/symposium.htm. Registration can by made online, or by fax or mail. Full registration, including the Technical Program, Friday luncheon, and Saturday Banquet, is $145 (USD USD In currencies, this is the abbreviation for the U.S. Dollar. Notes: The currency market, also known as the Foreign Exchange market, is the largest financial market in the world, with a daily average volume of over US $1 trillion. ) before April 21, and $160 after that date. A variety of other registration options are available. For information, contact Michael Kong, Conference Chair, at 604.515.1788; or email michael@firestop.com. |
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