The U.S. continues to lag behind global photovoltaic (PV) leaders Germany and Australia in prices for residential installations.

MACtac recently announced it has received BS 5609 Section 2 and Section 3 label certification.

Meredian Inc. recently announced it has appointed John A. Dowdy III to the position of chief financial officer.

3M recently announced that Ashish K. Khandpur, Ph.D., has been appointed senior vice president of Research and Development, as well as chief technology officer.

The Department of the Navy (Naval Sea Systems Command) has granted MIL-PRF-907F qualification status to two Loctite anti-seize products.

Custom Milling & Consulting Inc. recently announced that John Sneeringer has been appointed general manager.

The plants, which will have an annual capacity of over 20,000 metric tons, will be built in Xuzhou, Jiangsu Province, China.

Sika Corp. recently announced that Paul Gross has accepted the position of key account manager, OES.

The University of Michigan will enter a car wrapped in Avery Dennison® MPI 1005 Supercast Easy Apply RS™ and DOL 1360 overlaminate in the 2014 American Solar Car Challenge.

The M. F. Cachat Co. recently announced that Zeeospheres Ceramics LLC has named it an exclusive distributor.