The Polyurethane Foam Association (PFA) has awarded Adona Marcum with the Herman Stone Technical Excellence Award for her presentation at the PFA Fall Technical Program in Phoenix, AZ.

London has a new plan to reduce air pollution. Recently, the roads have been sprayed down with a calcium-based adhesive to trap the sooty particles from the air. City officials

Phoseon Technology, Integration Technology Ltd. and Lumen Dynamics have joined together to form the UV LED Curing Association.

The global market for hot-melt adhesives is projected to reach $4.65 billion by the year 2017, spurred by growth in end-use industries such as infrastructure and construction.

Henkel recently announced that its third quarter sales increased 1.7% compared with the prior-year quarter to €4,028 million (~ $5,469 million).

A new one-day workshop, Sample Preparation and Evaluation, will be launched in 2012 at the Atlas offices in Linsengericht Germany.

Papers are sought for the 12th Internatio​nal Conference on Biocomposi​tes, which will take place May 6-8, 2012, in Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada.

TricorBraun has relocated its Latin American headquarters and Mexico City office to larger quarters.

The Coalition for American Solar Manufacturing (CASM) recently called on a group of Chinese solar cell and panel importers to explain how what CASM contends is an unprecedented surge of dumped and subsidized exports made according to weak environmental standards and shipped halfway around the world could possibly benefit U.S. consumers or the environment, as the importers claimed this week.

The global surgical incision closures market is expected to exceed $9 billion by 2017, according to a new report by Global Industry Analysts Inc.