Dow Coating Materials recently announced that R&D Magazine has awarded its EVOQUETM Technology with a R&D 100 award for 2013.

Plasmatreat recently announced Surface TechDays, a one-day symposium taking place in three locations:  October 1 in Detroit, October 2 in Chicago and October 4 in Minneapolis/St. Paul.

OMNOVA Solutions recently announced an investment to repurpose or redirect excess styrene butadiene (SB) latex capacity at its plant in Mogadore, Ohio.

MAPEI Corp. recently announced the appointment of Dan Marvin to the position of associate director of Technical Services.

RPM International Inc. recently announced that it has promoted four employees at its corporate headquarters.

Emerald Kalama Chemical, a business group of Emerald Performance Materials, recently announced it has promoted Shamsi P. Gravel to product line director of its K-FLEX^® platform for the Americas.

Arsenal Capital Partners recently announced it has completed its acquisition of ADCO Global Inc.

Staff representing the Congressional Composites Caucus and other House of Representatives offices recently learned about the many uses of composites in military aircraft, missiles and unmanned vehicles, spacecraft and commercial aircraft.

Ferro Corp. recently reported net sales of $435 million in the second quarter of 2013, compared with net sales of $476 million in the previous year’s second quarter.

PPG Industries recently announced several executive appointments, effective August 1.