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October 7, 2015
By: KERRY PIANOFORTE
Editor, Coatings World
The 43rd Annual International Waterborne, High‐Solids and Powder Coatings Symposium has announced its program line‐up. The symposium will be held in the New Orleans Marriott, 555 Canal Street, New Orleans. The weeksstarts with short courses, January 31 ‐ February 2, followed by a Technology Showcase Exhibit Hall, February 2‐4, andther main technical symposium February 3 ‐ 5, 2016. Technical sessions will include Waterborne, Nanotube, Bio‐based,Academia, Corrosion, Additives, and a General session for all other talks. Once again host an expert advisory panel (topic TBA soon) sponsored by Coatings World Magazine. The 2016 Plenary speaker is Kurt Olson, Fellow, Coatings Research and Development from PPG Industries. Kurt will be speaking on Wednesday morning at 8:00 am. Following will be keynote speaker, John Gilbert, Sr. Vice President, Research and Development, BEHR Process Corporation. Rounding out the opening session will be an expert advisory panel. The annual Sidney Lauren Memorial Lecture will be given by Kristen Blankenship, AGC Chemicals America’s and winner of the Siltech Best Paper Award for Innovation at the 2015 Waterborne Symposium. Student’s day will be on Thursday, February 4, 2016 featuring a student poster session/competition, resume books, informal interviews and a student reception. This is a good opportunity to time to meet the students and see the work that is being done here at the School of Polymers and High Performance Materials at The University of Southern Mississippi. Resume books for the 2015‐16 Academic year will be available shortly. You can request your copy or be added to the annual mailing list by emailing melanie.heusser@usm.edu. Other companies represented with papers this year include: BASF SE, Nasa, Dow Coatings Materials, Croda, Nuplex Resins, Cardolite Corporation, Dow Chemical Company, Worlee Chemie, Battelle, Molecular Rebar Design, Berger Paints India, Mississippi State University, Stoney Brook University, University of Concepcion, The University of Southern Mississippi, Evonik, SIltech, Dow Corning, BYK Chemie GmbH, Axalta Coatings Systems, Troy Corporation, Clariant, Oxiteno, Emerlad Kalama Chemicals, Colmet Engineered Finishing Solutions, Rust‐Oleum Corporation, Argex, TBF Environmental Technology Inc., STERIS, Wacker and more. The Symposium will be holding two short courses this year January 31 ‐ February 2 (prior to the technical symposium). A beginning short course in the Fundamentals of Coatings (optional 1 day add on for Sunday, January 31, 2016) and the Science of Formulating, and also a more advanced short course in Reformulating to Waterborne Coatings. Course descriptions and more information on these coursescan be found at www.waterbornesymposium.com. Sponsorship packets are now available. You can request your copy by email or phone (601-266-4475). More details can be found on the website at www.waterbornesymposium.com along with abstracts and speakers bio’s coming shortly. Registration will open online on November 1, 2015.
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