The Adhesive and Sealant Council (ASC) has announced that its Spring 2005 Convention and Exposition will be held in Columbus, OH, April 17-20, 2005.

Asymtek will hold a conformal coating and dispensing workshop on Wed., Dec. 8 at the Center for Board Assembly Research, Manufacturing Research Center (MARC) of the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta.

Afera, the European Association for the Self Adhesive Tape industry, has announced plans to host the second Tape College, April 7-8, 2005, at the Marriott Hotel in Brussels, Belgium.

W.R. Grace & Co. has announced its acquisition of the TRI-FLEX 30 product line from Flexia Corp., headquartered in Canada.

RadTech International has requested that any companies that would like to be included in the Annual Toll Coaters, Custom Coaters & Pilot Lines issues of the RadTech Report contact RadTech at (240) 497-1243 or via e-mail at mickey@radtech.org to secure a space for their listing.

Huron Capital Partners LLC, a Michigan-based private equity firm, announced that it has funded a specialty chemicals initiative in Quest Specialty Chemicals in order to acquire Raabe Corp.

The 2005 Automation & Assembly Summit is a forum for innovations in emerging automation and assembly technologies, systems and processes.

The SMTA International Technical Committee has requested abstract submissions for the 2005 SMTA International conference, to be held Sept. 25-29 at the Donald Stephens Convention Center in Rosemont, IL.

Eastman Chemical Company has announced that Qilu Eastman Specialty Chemical Ltd. (QESCL) has begun operations in Zibo, Shandong Province, People's Republic of China.

On November 18, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency removed ethylene glycol butyl ether (EGBE, or 2-butoxyethanol CAS# 111-76-2) from the Clean Air Act (CAA) List of Hazardous Air Pollutants.