Adhesives & Sealants Industry Magazine and the Adhesive and Sealant Council are sponsoring the Adhesives for Product Assembly Symposium, June 18-19, 2001, at the Michigan State University Management Education Center in Troy, Mich.

The joining of the Adhesion Society’s 25th Annual Meeting with the second World Congress on Adhesion and Related Phenomena (WCARP-II) is the result of a decision reached in 1994 by the Adhesion Society Inc.

The KRATON™ Polymers Business celebrates its independence from Shell as it embarks on a future under new ownership.

The Dow Chemical Co. completed its $7.3-billion acquisition of Union Carbide Corp.

The Pressure Sensitive Tape Council (PSTC) will hold its 4th Global Conference, TECH XXIV Sharing Global Pressure Sensitive Tape Innovations, May 2-4, 2001, in Orlando, Fla.

David Diehl, PPG Industries Inc., has been elected president-elect of RadTech International North America, the trade association that works to promote the technical, educational and market advancement of ultraviolet (UV)- and electron-beam (EB)-curing processes.

Integration of Bostik Findley progresses as the former Bostik and Ato Findley companies combine their respective organizations to become one of the world’s leading adhesives and sealants producers for a number of industrial, high-end manufacturing and specialty markets.

Hauthaway has appointed Wise Technical Marketing to represent its lines of Hauthane waterborne polyurethane dispersions and urethane acrylic hybrids.

CREANOVA has appointed Maroon distributor of products supplied by the company’s Coatings Raw Materials and Adhesives Raw Materials divisions in the Midwestern United States.

Kline & Co. has announced a new service to provide chemical companies with high-quality content for their business-to-business (B2B) exchanges, corporate home pages, virtual private networks and other electronic-based platforms.