American Paint & Coatings Journal articles from October 1992

American Paint & Coatings Journal archives from October 1992

Doyle: budgets won't slow NPCA. (National Paint and Coatings Association Executive Director J. Andrew Doyle)
October 26, 1992... New strategies, alliances outlined at suppliers meeting Pentagon City, Va., Oct. 22 Budgetary considerations next year will not prevent the National Paint and Coatings Association from continuing to confront increasing regulatory burdens on...

No major turnaround seen for sluggish economy. (United States)
October 26, 1992... But Du Pont's James forecasts better 1993 for coatings industry Chicago, Oct. 15 -- A less-than-rosy economic outlook for the rest of 1992 and next year -- no matter who wins the November presidential election -- was the forecast offered at a...

UM-Rolla announces short course offerings. (University of Missouri-Rolla)
October 26, 1992... Programs to include basic paint composition for marketing personnel Rolla, Mo., Oct. 15 -- Basic coatings for sales and marketing personnel and introduction to paint formulation and composition will be among the topics covered in four...

Pratt & Lambert, Inc. chairman announces retirement plans. (Raymond D. Stevens, Jr.)
October 26, 1992... Buffalo, N.Y., Oct. 22 -- Raymond D. Stevens Jr., board chairman of Pratt & Lambert, Inc., announced plans to retire from active management at the end of 1992. Stevens, who is 65, will remain as a director of the company and will continue to...

Study: water-soluble polymers uses growing.
October 26, 1992... New York, Oct. 22 -- Total U.S. consumption of water-soluble polymers stood at a healthy 4.9 billion pounds, or $2.85 billion, in 1991 and will grow to nearly 5.6 billion pounds by 1996, according to a new study by Frost & Sullivan...

Dr. John Graham, 52; was research institute director. (Coatings Research Institute) (Obituary)
October 26, 1992... Ann Arbor, Mich. -- Dr. John Graham, a professor at the College of Technology and director of the Coatings Research Institute and the Paint Research Associates, died here after a long illness on Sept. 29. He was 52. Dr. Graham was born in...

Preventing childhood lead exposure: putting the issues in perspective. (includes related article)
October 26, 1992... THE CHRONOLOGY of lead use by the paint industry is a clear demonstration of proactive response to new evidence of a potential public health problem. In the 1950s new studies on childhood lead poisoning revealed that eating old, deteriorated...

Correlation plots. (Statistics for the user in coatings, part 8)
October 26, 1992... Robert D. Athey Jr. is a consulting chemist on formulation and application problems. Athey Technologies, P.O. Drawer 7, El Cerrito, Calif. 94530-0007. Phone: (510) 526-3541. Introduction WHEN SEVERAL TESTERS or labs gather information from...

U. of Calif. plans short course on compliance. (University of California-Berkeley; compliance with air quality regulation for paints)
October 26, 1992... Berkeley, Calif., Oct. 14 -- The University of California-Berkeley will offer a short course, "Getting into Compliance with Air Quality Regulations for Paints, Coatings and Printing Facilities," on Jan. 12-15, 1993, in New Orleans. Course...

Building institute begins work on lead paint database. (National Institute of Building Sciences)
October 26, 1992... Washington, D.C., Oct. 22 -- The National Institute of Building Sciences announced that it recently began compiling a database that will make accurate information about federal and state lead hazard programs available for activities and...

United Gilsonite presents sales awards for 1992. (United Gilsonite Labs)
October 26, 1992... Scranton, Pa., Oct. 22 -- United Gilsonite Laboratories named Brian Feige recipient of the company's 1992 Executive Salesman Award and Jim Steckbeck the winner of its 25-Year Executive Salesman Award. Feige was presented his award during the...

Performance of low-VOC systems eyed. (volatile organic compounds) (Convention Daily)
October 23, 1992... WITH AIR QUALITY regulations continuing to pose greater challenges to coatings producers, it's no great surprise that the Annual Meeting of the Federation of Societies for Coatings Technology in Chicago included the almost-mandatory session on...

Roon papers: high-tech research. (Roon Awards Papers) (Convention Daily)
October 23, 1992... Polymer, extender, thickener topics explored at session ADVANCED COATINGS topics involving polymers, thickeners and extenders were explored at the Roon Awards Papers session Thursday as scientists from industry and academia vied for top...

Session offers three views on 'empowerment' strategies. (Federation of Societies for Coatings Technology's annual meeting) (Convention Daily)
October 23, 1992... EVERYBODY'S TALKING about the benefits of employee involvement and that increasingly heard buzzword, employee "empowerment." But three speakers at a Thursday session of the Federation of Societies for Coatings Technology's Annual Meeting...

Direct-to-metal anticorrosive coatings developments aired. (Convention Daily)
October 23, 1992... THREE PROMISING new anticorrosive products for direct application to metal were described Thursday at a session presented by the Corrosion Committee of the Federation of Societies for Coatings Technology at the organization's Annual Meeting in...

'General' coatings session eyes urethanes, polyesters. (Federation of Societies for Coatings Technology's annual meeting) (Convention Daily)
October 23, 1992... TWO PRESENTATIONS on urethanes and one on hybrid polyester powder coatings highlighted a session on general coatings technology Thursday at the Annual Meeting of the Federation of Societies for Coatings Technology in Chicago. Surface...

Colin D. Penny: Federation president, 1992-93. (Federation of Societies for Coatings Technology) (Convention Daily)
October 23, 1992... IT'S ELECTION TIME, but Colin Penny doesn't really need to worry about campaigning or debating his way to any presidency--at least not the presidency of the Federation of Societies for Coatings Technology. The gardening enthusiast, shown here...

Rheology: key to creativity in current water-based systems. (Convention Daily)
October 23, 1992... Fred Whitton is director of marketing, water-based systems, Rheox, Inc., P.O. Box 700, Highstown, N.J. 08520. Phone: (609) 443-2000. PERFORMANCE CHARACTERISTICS of latex paints have improved over the last 10 years as a result of significant...

Detroit SCT recognized for growth, technical efforts. (Detroit Society for Coatings Technology) (Convention Daily)
October 23, 1992... Joe Leznek, Chrysler Corp., is publicity chairman of the Detroit Society for Coatings Technology. THE MOTOR CITY'S society for coatings technology cruised into the 1992-93 year riding a record of membership growth and technical...

Philly society defies recession, wins FSCT honors for growth. (Philadelphia Society for Coatings Technology; Federation of Societies for Coatings Technology) (Convention Daily)
October 23, 1992... William J. Fabiny, SermaGard Coatings, is president of the Philadelphia Society for Coatings Technology. DESPITE THE recessionary times, the Philadelphia Society for Coatings Technology is alive and well. We have experienced At least a...

The TiO2 cycle continues; but balance may be on horizon. (titanium dioxide) (Convention Daily) (Industry Overview)
October 23, 1992... Dennis Reilley is vice president and general manager, white pigment & mineral products, Du Pont Chemicals, 1007 Market St., Wilmington, Del. 19898. Phone (302) 773-2677. THE GLOBAL titanium dioxide industry is well into its second oversupply...

N.Y. SCT covers all technical, social and regulatory bases. (New York Society for Coatings Technology) (Convention Daily)
October 23, 1992... Michael C. Frantz, Daniel Products Co., is president of the New York Society for Coatings Technology. THE NEW YORK Society for Coatings Technology recorded another successful year in 1992-92, keeping its members up to date on many important...

CDIC meeting topics range from Sherlock to solar system. (CDIC Society for Coatings Technology)
October 23, 1992... WITH MEETING TOPICS that ranged from a tour of the solar system to investigation of Sherlock Holmes, the CDIC Society for Coatings Technology enjoyed a successful and interesting 1991-1992 year under the direction of president James E....

The people factor. (Convention Daily)
October 23, 1992... A vision -- and its communication -- hold key to business success in the '90s Robert C. Coleman is vice president, marketing, for Brockway-Standard, Inc., 867 Roberts Dr., Atlanta, Ga. 30350. Phone: (44) 587-0888. WHAT CAN WE look forward...

FSCT Spring week heads for Houston; y'all come see us! (Federation of Societies for Coatings Technology; Houston Society for Coatings Technology) (Convention Daily)
October 23, 1992... Terry Cogan, Raw Materials Corp., is president of the Houston Society for Coatings Technology. SIGNIFICANT MILESTONES -- that sums up what's going on at the Houston Society for Coatings Technology, where the past year and the coming one are...

Industry helping Cal Poly weather tough times on coast. (California Polytechnic State University) (Convention Daily)
October 23, 1992... Dr. Dane Jones is a professor of chemistry at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, Calif. 93407. Phone: (805) 756-2528. CALIFORNIA POLYTECHNIC State University, San Luis Obispo has just completed the second year of its...

A call for unified action: alliance of suppliers, manufacturers needed to battle unwarranted regulation. (Convention Daily)
October 23, 1992... Charles E. Carncross is manager, Coatings & Plastics Division, Buckman Laboratories, Inc., 1256 N. McLean Blvd., Memphis, Tenn. 38108. Phone (800) 282-5626. A PERSON DOES NOT have to work in the paint industry for very long to see the...

TiO2: growth returns. (titanium dioxide industry) (Convention Daily) (Industry Overview)
October 23, 1992... Solid rebound under way, but trade, capacity situations cloud any projections Brian Eckersley is vice president, marketing, Tioxide, Inc., 9999 Cavendish Blvd., Suite 100, St. Laurent, Montreal, Quebec H4M 2X5, Canada. Phone: (514) 747-9294....

Members keep Cleveland society machine rolling. (Cleveland Society for Coatings Technology) (Convention Daily)
October 23, 1992... Roy A. "Skip" Glover, The Mahoning Paint Corp., is president of the Cleveland Society for Coatings Technology. WITH 1992-93 Cleveland Society for Coatings Technology Ben Carlozzo, Tremco, Inc., moving into the past-president 's chair, the...

Steel City society's focus for '92-93: the environment. (Pittsburgh Society for Coatings Technology) (Convention Daily)
October 23, 1992... Jeffrey C. Sturm, Kop-Coat, Inc., is president of the Pittsburgh Society for Coatings Technology. THE PITTSBURGH Society for Coatings Technology's meetings, which are held on the second Monday of each month at Montemurro's Restaurant in...

Coming of age: powder coatings industry shows it's more than bit player. (Convention Daily) (Industry Overview)
October 23, 1992... Gregory J. Bocchi is executive director of the Powder Coating Institute, 1800 Diagonal Rd., Suite 370, Alexandria, Va. 22314. Phone: (703) 684-1770. THE PAST 18 MONTHS have not been great for any industry, but the powder coating segment of...

Louisville society keeps pace with cutting-edge technology. (Louisville Society for Coatings Technology) (Convention Daily)
October 23, 1992... James E. Flanagan is publicity chairman of the Louisville Society for Coatings Technology. IN LOUISVILLE, where paint is king -- along with thoroughbred race horses and bluegrass, of course -- the Louisville Society for Coatings Technology...

L.A. society gearing up to host whopping western symposium. (Los Angeles Society for Coatings Technology) (Convention Daily)
October 23, 1992... Sandra Dickinson, Synergistic Performance Corp., is president of the Los Angeles Society for Coatings Technology. AS IT STAND HERE at this unique crossroads in time as the new president of the largest local society in the Federation of...

New England society sets sail for another whale of a year. (New England Society for Coatings Technology) (Convention Daily)
October 23, 1992... Joseph H. Weinberg, Stahl USA, is president of the New England Society for Coatings Technology. THE NEW ENGLAND Society for Coatings Technology got its 1992-93 year off to a whale of a start -- literally -- as society members set off for a...

Southern society continues to build on role in education. (Southern Society for Coatings Technology) (Convention Daily)
October 23, 1992... Billy Lee, Kemira, Inc., is president of the Southern Society for Coatings Technology. THE SOUTHERN SOCIETY for Coatings Technology and the University of Southern Mississippi, two long-term coatings-industry friends, further cemented their...

Homeowners' maintenance spending declined in 1991. (Convention Daily)
October 23, 1992... TO NO ONE'S surprise, homeowners last year cut down on expenditures for maintenance and repair of their properties. Producers of architectural coatings, with a few exceptions, felt the decline in sales volume figures, and paintmakers and...

Painting held onto percentage of maintenance, repair budgets. (Convention Daily)
October 23, 1992... HOMEOWNERS MAY HAVE cut deeply into their maintenance and repair budgets last year, but painting activities held a steady share in the declining market. In the $50-billion maintenance and repair market -- down about $1.5 billion in 1991 from...

Contractors' importance grows in home maintenance, repair. (Convention Daily)
October 23, 1992... THE GROWING IMPORTANCE of contractors in the maintenance and repair of single-unit homes is clear, according to government figures. In 1991, payments to contractors by single-unit homeowners totaled $17.47 billion, up from $16.10 billion the...

Effect of opaque polymer on hiding during latex film formation. (Convention Daily)
October 23, 1992... By the Cleveland Society of Coatings Technology EXTENSIVE INVESTIGATION of opaque polymer and how it affects hiding during latex film formation led the researchers to conclude that formulation constants and the properties of the opaque...

Method to determine vehicle demand of organic pigmentation. (Convention Daily)
October 23, 1992... By the Montreal and Toronto Societies for Coatings Technology THE PAPER DESCRIBES a system for wetting down a given amount of pigment without using cumbersome trial-and-error methods. The method is said to yield a reliable oil-absorption...

Color standardization tests illustrate value of instrumentation. (Convention Daily)
October 23, 1992... By the Los Angeles Society for Coatings Technology CONFIRMATION THAT that confidence in color-measurement instruments is justified has been provided by this paper, "Color Standards -- Wet, Dry or Spectrophotometric." The researchers found...

Precision in hardness testing investigated. (Convention Daily)
October 23, 1992... PRECISION OF hardness testing to provide evidence of adhesion and mar/scratch resistance is not well documented, and the researchers sought to determine correlation of the various current test methods. They found poor correlation of the two...

Atomic absorption employed in research of flash rusting. (Convention Daily)
October 23, 1992... EARLIER FINDING of the researchers using spectrophotometric techniques have been correlated with atomic absorption analysis, which required removal of the paint and analysis of the iron content of the samples. The atomic absorption analyses...

Economic, environmental woes aren't confined to U.S. (UK paint and coatings industry) (Convention Daily)
October 23, 1992... Moira McMillan is director of the UK Paintmakers Association. THIS YEAR'S convention theme for the National Paint and Coatings Association, "Meeting the Challenge," applies equally well to paintmakers across the Atlantic who share many of the...

Industry support can assist Forest Products Lab's mission. (Forest Products Laboratory's wood finishing research project) (Convention Daily)
October 23, 1992... William C. Feist is a Research Chemist and R. Sam Williams is a project leader with the USDA Forest Service's Forest Products Laboratory. One Gifford Pinchot Drive, Madison, Wis. 53705-2398. Phone: (608) 231-9497.. The Laboratory is maintained...

It's curtains for George, Tsongas tells NPCA. (George Bush, presidential candidate Paul Tsongas, National Paint and Coatings Association)
October 22, 1992... FORMER DEMOCRATIC presidential candidate Paul Tsongas offered a glimpse back at his now-defunct presidential campaign and forecast George Bush's own demise when he addressed the Final General Session of the National Paint and Coatings...

Flak from Jack: Washington indicted by Anderson in keynote address to Federation. (columnist Jack Anderson, Federation of Societies for Coatings Technology)
October 22, 1992... THE 70TH ANNUAL Meeting of the Federation of Societies for Coatings Technology got off to a rousing start Wednesday when a near-capacity crowd in the ballroom of the McCormick Center Hotel in Chicago reacted enthusiastically to columnist Jack...

Cooperative efforts urged by new NPCA president Dague. (National Paint and Coatings Association Pres Paul Dague)
October 22, 1992... NEW NATIONAL Paint and Coatings Association president Paul Dague outlined challenges facing the paint and coatings industry and offered hope for meeting those challenges at the conclusion of the Association's Annual Meeting Wednesday....

Quality 'culture,' moves to join elite ISO 9000 circle explored. (global quality standard)
October 22, 1992... A TRIO OF speakers offered their perspectives on the much-discussed topic of quality at a Wednesday session of the Annual Meeting of the Federation of Societies for Coatings Technology in Chicago. In a session simply titled "Quality," Dr....

'Emerging' session assesses new trends and technologies. (emerging technologies, coatings industry innovations)
October 22, 1992... TOPICS RANGING from technology trends that might produce candidates for commercial success in the coming years to a quantitative method to assess paint-generated odors were explored at a Wednesday session of the Annual Meeting of the Federation...

A sharper education focus: 'Test Drilling' of projects just one example of Federation's committment to members. (Educational Coordinating Committee, Federation of Socieites for Coatings Technology)
October 22, 1992... Don Boyd, PPG Industries, Inc., is chairman of the Federation of Societies for Coatings Technology's Educational Coordinating Committee. IT IS TRULY an exciting time for the Federation of Societies for Coatings Technology's educational...

Growing Chicago society welcomes conventioneers. (Chicago Society for Coatings Technology)
October 22, 1992... William W. Fotis, The Valspar Corp., is president of the Chicago Society for Coatings Technology. THE NEW FISCAL year is upon us with new goals and objectives and especially a new name: The Chicago Society for Coatings Technology...

New program name highlights developments at U. of Mo.-Rolla. (University of Missouri-Rolla, University of Missouri-Rolla Coatings Institute)
October 22, 1992... Dr. Michael R. Van De Mark is director of the University of Missouri-Rolla Coatings Institute, 42 Schrenk Hall, Rolla, Mo. 65401-0249. Phone: (314) 341-4419. THE UNIVERSITY of Missouri-Rolla has made many changes this past year and has...

Titanium dioxide: the 'specialty commodity.' (paint pigment)
October 22, 1992... Joseph Mass is director of marketing, Kronos, Inc., P.O. Box 700, Hightstown, N.J. 08520. Phone: (609) 443-2446. WHITE IS WHITE. Like old-fashioned vanilla ice cream. Plain and simple. Traditional. Not much new that you can say about it. Not...

Solid St. Louis society year is not just a lucky roll of the dice. (St. Louis Society for Coatings and Technology)
October 22, 1992... Dennis Cahill, Archway Sales, Inc., is president of the St. Louis Society for Coatings Technology. THAT HIGH-ROLLING, risk-taking St. Louis Society for Coatings Technology tested lady luck aboard a floating Mississippi River casino recently,...

Happy birthday: cake and candles celebrate 70th year for Golden Gate society. (Golden Gate Society for Coatings Technology)
October 22, 1992... Margaret Hartmann, Jones-Hamilton Co., is president of the Golden Gate Society for Coatings Technology. ON SEPT. 18, 1922, a group of paint production men of the San Francisco Bay area organized as the Bay Cities Paint Superintendents' Club....

Ambitious plantification to offer solid Montreal SCT programme. (Montreal Society for Coatings Technology)
October 22, 1992... Richard Bordeleau, Tioxide, Inc., is president of the Montreal Society for Coatings Technology. EVENEMENTS SPECIAUX--that may describe the entire lineup of programming in the works for the Montreal Society for Coatings Technology in 1992-93....

Looking for optimism: growth remains sluggish, but product developments offer some good news. (paint industry)
October 22, 1992... Robert B. North is general manager, sales and marketing-calcium carbonates, Genstar Stone Products Co., Executive Plaza IV, 11350 McCormick Rd., Hunt Valley, Md. 21031-1091. Phone: (301) 527-4000. THIS IS THE THIRD time A.F. Voss Jr. of...

Expanded facilities, funding help USM aid industry's cause. (University of Southern Mississippi; coatings industry)
October 22, 1992... Dr. Shelby Thames is distinguished university research professor, The University of Southern Mississippi, Southern Station Box 10076, Hattiesburg, Miss. 39406. Phone (601) 266-4080. THE DEPARTMENT of Polymer Science at the University of...

EMU expanding coatings programs on several fronts. (Eastern Michigan University)
October 22, 1992... Dr. Taki J. Anagnostou is professor and program coordinator of the Polymer and Coating Technology Program, Eastern Michigan University, 201 Sill Hall, Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, Mich. 48197. Phone: (313) 487-8755. THIS PAST YEAR...

Electronics, packaging coatings among research topics at Lowell. (University of Massachusetts at Lowell)
October 22, 1992... Dr. Rudolph D. Deanin is coordinator of the Coatings and Adhesives Program at the University of Massachusetts at Lowell, Lowell, Mass. 01854. Phone: (508) 934-3426. THE UNIVERSITY of Massachusetts at Lowell has had a master of science...

'Greening' of America casting tint on emerging color trends. (paint products)
October 22, 1992... Patricia Verlodt is president and owner of Color Services, Hanover Park, Ill., and president of the Color Marketing Group, 4001 N. Ninth St., Suite 102, Arlington, Va. 22203. Phone: (703) 528-7666. WHAT SETS YOU apart from your competition?...

ASTM D-1 panel tackling VOC, accelerated weathering issues. (American Society for Testing and Materials, paint production standards)
October 22, 1992... From ASTM Committee D-1 on Paint and Related Coatings, Materials and Applications This article was written by Marsha Firman, public relations assistant for ASTM, with the assistance of Douglas Grossman, chairman of ASTM Subcommittee D01.27,...

Media learns what coatings industry already knew: NDSU, Fargo rank high. (North Dakota State University, Fargo, North Dakota)
October 22, 1992... Dr. Marek W. Urban is associate professor, Department of Polymers and Coatings, North Dakota State University, 54 Dunbar Hall, Fargo, N.D. 58105. Phone: (701) 237-7633. ALTHOUGH IT MAY NOT be headline news for the coatings industry -- since...

N.W. society sees new council as playing crucial industry role. (Northwestern Society for Coatings Industry)
October 22, 1992... Joseph Wirth, Consolidated Container Corp., is president of the Northwestern Society for Coatings Technology. THE NORTHWESTERN Society for Coatings Technology enjoyed an interesting and eventful 1991-1992 under the direction of outgoing...

Kansas City SCT marches on despite consolidation trend. (Kansas City Society for Coatings Technology)
October 22, 1992... Yvonne D'Arcy, Cook Composites and Polymers, is president of the Kansas City Society for Coatings Technology. THE PAINT AND coatings industry in Kansas City has taken its lumps from the industry's consolidation trend, but the Kansas City...

Printing ink, paint industries allied in global council.
October 22, 1992... James H. Sutphin is executive director of the National Association of Printing Ink Manufacturers, 77 Terrace Ave., Hasbrouck, N.J. 07604. Phone: (201) 288-9454. NOW IN ITS 78th year, the National Association of Printing Ink Manufacturers is...

Technology monitor: Paint Research Association keeps watchful eye on coatings literature around the world.
October 22, 1992... Helma Jotischky is principal research officer of the Paint Research Association of Great Britain, 8 Waldegrave Rd., Teddington, Middlesex TW11 8LD, England. Phone: (81) 977-4427. FAX (81) 943-4705. SIXTY-SIX YEARS ago, the Paint Research...

Paint pride: coatings industry's role in preserving, beautifying helps generate its energy.
October 22, 1992... Joseph B. Scheller is president of Silberline Manufacturing Co., Inc., P.O. Box B, Tamaqua, Pa. 18252-0420. Phone: (717) 668-6050 A FUNNY THING happened at a National Paint and Coatings Association sub-committee meeting in Washington. We...

Economy slowed down price-hike express in 1992. (paint production materials)
October 22, 1992... NORMAL INFLUENCES on pricing -- supply and demand -- and costs of raw materials reflected the economic trends this past year as buyers stubbornly resisted efforts by suppliers to advance prices. Raw material prices, as a whole, were notably...

'Super-strong' polymers, other developments described. (paints and coats production innovations)
October 22, 1992... AN INDUSTRY that depends on its technical expertise to thrive -- or just survive -- requires continual on technology advances. The unit of the Federation of Societies for Coatings Technology responsible for keeping members apprised of...

Heeding the customer's voice: innovative solutions sought, delivered on environmental, color-matching demands. (paints and coatings industry)
October 22, 1992... Donald P. Miller is director of marketing, trade sales colorants, for Huls America Inc., 80 Centennial Ave., Piscataway, N.J. Phone: (908) 980-6800. RECENT YEARS have seen the advent of many product changes within the paint and coatings...

Dague takes reins of NPCA for 1992-93. (National Paint and Coatings Association's incoming association president Paul Dague)
October 21, 1992... Outgoing national Paint and Coatings Association president B.F. Mautz Jr. offered a final farewell and turned the reins over to incoming association president Paul Dague Tuesday at the Final Business Session and luncheon of the Association's...

Ruckgaber receives NPCA's Heckel prize. (Louis A. Ruckgaber Jr.;National Paint and Coatings Association)
October 21, 1992... Louis A. Ruckgaber JR., vice president of Egyptian Lacquer Manufacturing Co., Inc., was named Tuesday as the recipient of the George Baugh Heckel Award, the National Paint and Coatings Association's highest honor. Ruckgaber, presented...

Opposition to 'Issue 5' in Ohio gaining strength. (Issue 5 would enact labeling regulations costing industry millions of dollars to implement)
October 21, 1992... A labeling and notification measure on the Nov. 3 election ballot in Ohio is the target of an all-out assault by industries that would be hit with excessive costs if the proposal passes, a "Regulatory and Legislative Breakfast" audience was...

Atlanta PCA sets torrid pace with action-packed agenda. (Atlanta Paint and Coating Association)
October 21, 1992... Down here in Dixie, the paint and coatings manufacturing industry is staying right in step with the times, keeping informed on environmental and regulatory issues and working to boost the industry's esteem in the public eye. And the...

Call to action sounded by NPCA's Doyle, Mautz. (National Paint and Coatings Association's J. Andrew Doyle and B.F. Mautz, Jr.)
October 20, 1992... NATIONAL PAINT and Coatings Association executive director J. Andrew Doyle and outgoing president B.F. Mautz Jr. echoed the theme of the Association's Annual Meeting, "Meeting the Challenge," when they outlined future NPCA objectives at the...

Bigger not always better, Hood says. (William E. Hood's analysis of the small manufacturers' advantages over big paint companies)
October 20, 1992... Small companies' advantages cited at breakfast session THE PAINT AND coatings industry's giants may benefit from economies of scale and marketing might, but the small paintmaker can take advantage of some tools if its own, a group of small...

Will sees a new threat: government that functions. (George Will, columnist and commentator)
October 20, 1992... JOURNALIST AND political correspondent George Will used his right-wing wit to take the edge off of some serious American ills when he delivered the keynote address at Monday's Opening Session of the National Paint and Coatings Association in...

Lead problem and remedies redefined in new legislation. (1991 Congressional bill)
October 20, 1992... A BILL awaiting President Bush's signature will overhaul the definition of lead exposure in housing and redefine the goals of efforts to minimize that exposure, an expert said Monday at the Annual Meeting of the National Paint and Coatings...

Labeling certainty: change. (National Paint and Coatings Association's Labeling Guide)
October 20, 1992... New, fourth edition of NPCA guide will respond to new regulatory demands CHANGES ARE COMING in product hazard labeling. The National Paint and Coatings Association's Labeling Committee is producing a revised Labeling Guide, the fourth...

'Meeting the challenge.' (National Paint and Coatings Association's commitment to serving paint industry's needs)
October 20, 1992... More than a convention theme, it's a commitment from the NPCA This year MARKS 105 years that an organized paint industry has been represented by a committed association. Throughout this century many obstacles have been faced, but with...

Tough call on TiO2. (titanium dioxide industry outlook) (Industry Overview)
October 20, 1992... Economic, environmental factors add fuel to volatile market situation THE TITANIUM INDUSTRY appears to be on the edge of a significant restructuring. I include both the mineral sands and titanium metal businesses, along with the manufacture...

Clouds dim California glow. (Southern California Paint and Coatings Association fights to preserve the paint industry)(includes related article) (Industry Overview)
October 20, 1992... But association sees sunnier outlook, if industry takes the lead DOING BUSINESS in the great Golden State of California, particularly Southern California, has become very challenging. Our reputation for growth and prosperity has been traded...