Articles Tagged with ''innovation''

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PSTC Opens Tape Week Call for Abstracts

Potential topics for consideration include tape’s advantages and areas for growth in comparison to other bonding methods, how to communicate tape’s benefits and overcome potential barriers for increased use by building and construction and automotive professionals, and upcoming innovations and future marketplace trends.
July 23, 2020

The Pressure Sensitive Tape Council (PSTC) recently announced the official opening of abstract submissions for its inaugural Tape Week event, slated for May 3-6, 2021, in Lake Buena Vista, Fla.


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Trend-Setting Coatings

Coatings Trends & Technologies will feature educational conference sessions in a two-track format, as well as tabletop exhibits and various opportunities to network with industry colleagues.
July 9, 2020

Hundreds of coatings formulators and chemists are expected to attend Coatings Trends & Technologies (CTT), which will be held September 9-10 in the Chicago suburb of Lombard, Ill. The event will feature educational conference sessions in a two-track format, as well as tabletop exhibits and various opportunities to network with industry colleagues.


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AkzoNobel Targets Supplier Collaborations through Paint the Future Program

AkzoNobel’s Paint the Future initiative is focused on establishing an innovation ecosystem to help accelerate, test, launch, and scale ideas and solutions for the paints and coatings industry.
July 6, 2020
Five companies have embarked on an innovation journey with AkzoNobel after their ideas were selected as part of the company’s Paint the Future supplier collaboration program.
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scientific formulas

3M Young Scientist Challenge Announces 2020 National Finalists and State Merit Winners

This year’s finalists, four girls and six boys ranging in age from 12-14, identified an everyday problem they’re passionate about and submitted a one- to two-minute video communicating the science behind their solution to solve the problem.
June 30, 2020
3M and Discovery Education recently announced the top 10 finalists and 27 State Merit Winners in the 2020 3M Young Scientist Challenge.
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NIST Adds New “Fingerprints” to Chemical Identification Database

The update includes more than 14,000 human and plant metabolites, as well as pesticides and environmental contaminants, chemicals used in manufacturing such as lubricants and surfactants, pharmaceutical drugs, and illicit drugs.
June 30, 2020
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has updated its database of chemical fingerprints, called mass spectra, that are used to identify unknown chemical compounds.
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Tape Talk

Driving Ahead: An Update from the Pressure Sensitive Tape Council

The Pressure Sensitive Tape Council has been busy preparing for the future and ensuring that the community has support where it is needed.
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Michel Merkx
June 30, 2020

At the beginning of the year, and even as recently as March, the extent of our shared health crisis could not have possibly been imagined. Very quickly, however, following updates from national and international health organizations and the federal government, everyone, including all of us at the Pressure Sensitive Tape Council (PSTC), began to make strategic decisions regarding how to not only navigate the perilous situation, but how to move forward.


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Awards

FEICA/EURADH Announce Winner of the 2020 Adhesion Innovation Award

For the 2020 edition of the biannual award, 10 candidates submitted papers in innovative adhesion science, and the EURADH jury examined each one for everything from scientific impact to practical application.
June 25, 2020
The winner of the second FEICA/EURADH Adhesion Innovation Award is Elisa Arikan for her paper on “Structural Adhesive Bonding of Polymers-Surface Characteristics and Adhesion Mechanism.”
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