The European Coatings Show, scheduled for April 3-4, 2017, in Nuremberg, Germany, has issued a call for innovations. The submission deadline is September 12.

Topics for technical papers include: raw materials (polymers and resins, pigments and dyes, fillers, additives, and solvents); testing and analysis methods and equipment; fundamental studies in mechanisms and physical properties; process and production techniques and equipment; legislation and regulation issues; and the formulation of solventborne systems, waterborne systems, high solids, radiation-curing systems, powders and powder coatings, hybrid systems, or functional systems.