• Preview of Eurocoat 2007
• Review of Eurocoat 2007

By Ania Dardas

As part of the three-year rotation that takes it to France, Italy and Spain, the venue for the upcoming EUROCOAT is Lyon in France, from September 30 to October 2 at Eurexpo. With 30 years of experience, EUROCOAT is the meeting that brings together the coatings industry for southern Europe and the Maghreb.

It is the place to meet your suppliers – there will be at least 370 specialists in raw materials, colorimetry, measurement and control, laboratory production, automated, packaging, surface treatment and environmental equipment. You can discover innovative new products in each of your fields of interest and talk to experts directly about your needs.

The EUROCOAT congress this year is dedicated to green chemistry, which means everything you need to know about how the paint, varnish, printing, glue and adhesives industries can provide green products developed with sustainability in mind.

The congress will start with two plenary sessions on green chemistry, followed by a round table session specifically on bio-coatings. The remaining two days offer a workshop on technical aspects and progress complemented by a series of 22 half-hour presentations on subjects that fall within the areas of “legislation, security and sustainable development”, “binders” and general topics, all presented by a distinguished range of speakers from the industry.

As well as taking advantage of the congress and how it can benefit your business directly, the Euroclips forum is a great place to see what’s new – presented in just 4 minutes and followed by a four-minute Q&A session with the public, these micro-presentations could be just the thing to show you the direction in which you want to go and the experts are on site if you would like to find out more. EUROCOAT 2008 has a lot to offer: not too large so that you can’t see everything, large enough to ensure you find out all about the latest in coatings.