Zeneca Resins has appointed Quem Commercial as its new distributor for Central America.

Slautterback has appointed Mid-America Packaging as a new factory-authorized sales and service center for Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, and parts of Illinois and Iowa.

National Starch and Chemical announced that its COOL-LOK® low-temperature, hot melt adhesive has been registered in Class 1 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.

Technology has created a new subsidiary, NuSil Technology Ltd., in Arklow, Ireland.

Effective Jan. 1, 1999, the Bayer Group has consolidated all activities related to coatings in a reorganization of the LS Business Group.

Adhesives ’99, sponsored by the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME), will be held Sept. 21-23, 1999.

RHEOX appointed Falcon Chemical as a new distribution representative.

Dow Chemical is working on construction of its new liquid epoxy resin and world-scale epichlorohydrin production-facility expansions.

The Freedonia Group predicts that demand for radiation-cured products in the United States will increase more than 10% per year to 200 million pounds in the year 2003.

Sartomer has received the Supplier of the Year Award from Walsh & Associates, St. Louis, a distributor of chemicals, containers and equipment.