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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
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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
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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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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
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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
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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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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
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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
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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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Henkel Origin 3D printed swabs

Henkel and Origin Collaborate to Help Meet Demand for COVID-19 Nasopharyngeal Swabs

Working cooperatively with Origin, Henkel supplied knowledge and technology to help design a nasopharyngeal swab that could be 3D printed at scale.
June 22, 2020
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In collaboration with Origin, Henkel recently announced that it has leveraged its ability to carry out biocompatibility and mechanical testing at its facility in Concord, Calif., and provided a range of 3D-printable medical photopolymers designed for use on Origin’s material development systems. 


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Market-Trends

Digital Transformation Projected to Affect $500 Billion of the Global Chemicals and Materials Industry

Digital technologies like sensors, computer vision, analytics, and robotics will be key enablers of the chemicals market’s transition to outcome-based business models over the next 20 years.
June 19, 2020
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The chemicals and materials industry has mostly seen only incremental innovation in recent decades, with growth coming primarily from expansion into new geographic markets.
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Awards

Entries Open for 2020 Label Industry Global Awards

The Label Industry Global Awards recognize organizations and individuals who have excelled in the label and package printing sector.
June 17, 2020
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The search is now underway for the world’s leading innovators in the label and package printing industry, with a total of five awards available at this year’s Label Industry Global Awards. 


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From the Editor

Evaluating New Normals

The “new normal” seems to be changing almost every day. How are you and your company managing during these tumultuous times?
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Susan Sutton
June 12, 2020
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We have all seen and experienced so many changes over the past few months. COVID-19 has caused a health crisis on a level most of us hadn’t even imagined, beyond the pages of dystopian fiction.


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EVENTS

Industry

10/24/19
San Jose, Calif
San Jose, CA
United States

Additive Electronics Conference: PCB Scale to IC Scale

Additive Electronics Conference: PCB Scale to IC Scale examines the manufacturing and design processes enabling line width and space from .003 in. to 5 microns, as well as other new advanced technologies intended to meet the ever-increasing challenges of smaller, lighter, and more powerful electronic devices.

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Industry

9/9/20 to 9/10/20

Coatings Trends & Technologies

Coatings Trends & Technologies (CTT) provides opportunities for coatings formulators, chemists, managers, business owners, industry suppliers, students, and educators come to learn about the latest research and technology emerging in the field.

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Industry

9/28/20 to 10/23/20

SMTA International Conference and Exhibition

The 2020 SMTA International Conference and Exhibition will be virtual in 2020.

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Industry

9/30/20 to 10/2/20
Valencia, Spain
Valencia
Spain

Afera Annual Conference

The Afera Annual Conference is the European Adhesive Tape Association’s premier yearly event.

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Industry

10/5/20 to 10/8/20
Stuttgart, Germany
Stuttgart
Germany

14th Annual Bondexpo

With a focus on the process chain of joining/bonding by means of gluing, molding, sealing, and foaming, Bondexpo offers detailed and system solutions for present and future challenges in the field of joining and bonding a broad range of materials.

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Industry

10/5/20 to 10/7/20
San Antonio, TX
United States

Polyurethanes Technical Conference

The Center for the Polyurethanes Industry (CPI) will host its 63rd Polyurethanes Technical Conference to highlight the latest innovative polyurethanes technology and discuss the most pressing issues facing the industry today.

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Industry

11/3/20 to 11/5/20
Dallas, Texas
Dallas, TX
United States

High Reliability Cleaning and Conformal Coating Conference

The High Reliability Cleaning and Conformal Coating Conference covers technological developments in strategies to achieve surface reliability.

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Industry

11/4/20 to 11/5/20
Louisville, Ky
Louisville, KY
United States

Adhesive and Sealant Council Adhesive Science Short Course

This comprehensive two-day technical short course, co-located with the ASC Annual Convention & EXPO, will focus on the foundation needed to excel in the development, manufacture, and use of adhesives and sealants.

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Industry

11/4/20 to 11/6/20
Louisville, Ky.
Louisville, KY
United States

Adhesive and Sealant Council Annual Convention & EXPO

As the only adhesive and sealant convention in 2020, this event will reportedly feature networking events and opportunities, keynote presentations from subject matter experts and thought leaders, 50+ educational sessions with strong technical content, EXPO tradeshow, and more.

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Industry

11/8/20 to 11/11/20
Chicago, Il
Chicago, IL
United States

PACK EXPO International

PACK EXPO International will enable attendees to explore packaging technologies, equipment, and materials from 2,500 exhibitors serving virtually every vertical industry.

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