Bill Pelke has joined the Sheffield Plastics Sales Team as the field development manager for the Western U.S. and Western Canada territory.

At the ASC Spring Convention in Cleveland, April 18-21, your customers or potential customers will offer information on their industry, purchasing processes and direction for the future.

Bayer AG intends to place a large part of its chemicals business - and some activities of Bayer MaterialScience - in a new company called "Lanxess," which will then be floated on the stock market.

Netherlands subsidiary company Omya Beheer BV is building a new plant for natural calcium carbonate (GCC) in Moerdijk, near Rotterdam.

Alco Chemical has announced the promotion of John Cate to director of Sales, North America.

Asymtek, together with fluid suppliers Dow Corning, Dymax, Emerson & Cuming, Henkel Technologies, Humiseal and Shin-Etsu, will present a two-day conformal coating and microelectronics dispensing seminar on April 27-28 in Westford, MA.

Hernon Manufacturing's Quality Management System has achieved certification to the internationally recognized ISO 9001:2000 quality standard.

In a strategic move to help customers speed time to market and reduce manufacturing costs, Dow Corning Corp. has launched the External Equipment Provider Alliance with nine leading companies from the electronics assembly and packaging industry.

Three separate events. One unified mission: quality education.

Professor Deborah Nightingale, PhD. of the MIT Lean Aerospace Initiative will present a keynote presentation, "Transforming the Lean Enterprise Value Stream," on Thursday, May 6, 2004, at 12:00 p.m. as part of the NEPCON East/Electro and Assembly East event.