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V I EWPOINTE W P O I N T
Coatings Attendance is Encouraging!!
Judging by events held in February for the ronment. Despite the travel impact of severe
munity and what is scheduled snowstorms that hindered attendees from
for March and April, I think things are look- the northeast, Waterborne still had nearly
ing up. The World of Concrete event held 200 attendees, 25 presentations and 28 post-
in February drew over 55,000 registered ers. The technology showcase featured 15
professionals and over 1,300 - exhibitors. For the first time, the symposium
panies. PACE 2010 was held in about the also featured posites Matrix Workshop,
same time frame and also seemed to have which attracted 60 people.
good attendance this year. NACE is sched- The Shelby F. Thames Best Paper Award
uled for mid-March and already is showing was presented to Edwin P. Chan, Kurt A.
over 5,000 registered and 350 exhibiting Page and Christopher M. Stafford from the
companies. All in all I think that is a good start to the Polymers Division, National Institute of Standards and
2010 year for the industry. Technology for their paper entitled “Harnessing Surface
Another event held pretty much at the same time was Wrinkling to Measure the Viscoelastic Properties of Poly-
the annual Waterborne Symposium, which is traditionally mer Films and Coatings”.
in New Orleans the week prior to Mardi Gras. The 2010 The PCI Outstanding Paper Award was presented
symposium theme was Advances in Sustainable Coatings to Jung Kwon Oh, Bedri Erdem, Jeff Anderson, Kumar
Technology – a theme of great importance in today’s envi- Nanjundiah and Jeff Sweeney, Dow Coatings Materials,
Dow pany for their paper entitled “High
Throughput Methods for Developing Low-VOC Water-
borne Coatings Derived from Polyurethane Dispersions
Based on Natural-Oil Polyols”.
ALL COLORS OF In addition, Eastman pany sponsored the
USM Best Graduate and Undergraduate Student Poster
THE R