A P P O I N T M E N T S Professor Byron Christ]nan, University of Houston-Downtown, recently received the 6th annual RadTech President's Award at the RadTech winter meeting in Miami. This award is presented to individual RadTech members that make signifi- cant contributions to the trade association and the advancement of UV and EB technology.

KTA Inc. announced that J u d y Cheng joined the firm as the western terri tory coatings con- sultant. She will be responsible for performing coatings evalua- tions and failure investigations, preparing coatings specifications

and maintenance painting programs, and conduct- ing training courses.

Se]nitool Inc., a manufacturer of advanced single- wafer deposition and surface preparation process equipment for the seminconductor and wafer-level packaging industry, announced the promotion of J i m Wright to vice president of manufacturing.

A W A R D S & H O N O R S Soliant LLC received the Environmental Award in the Emerging Technologies category at GPEC 2006, held Feb. 28 to March 2 in Atlanta, for its innova- tive, commercially adopted paint film process that reduces emissions to the environment by 98% when compared to traditional vehicle painting.

A C O U I S l T I O N S / S A L E S Stork Materials Technology acquired the busi- ness of Cl imax Research Services (Wixom, Mich.), a metallurgical engineering and testing company.

Proventec Plc, a provider of specialist steam cleaning and coatings technologies, sold its 12.57% holding in Keronite plc for an undisclosed sum, following the company's stated strategy of exiting its non-core investments.

O B I T U A R Y John C. Scholterer, a chemist and long-time executive of Key Tech Finishing (Buffalo), died recently, the Buffalo News reports.

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