Wood Coatings Symposium to Serve Wide Audience

By Cynthia Challener

Coatings for wood and wood-based substrates will be the focus of an upcoming symposium sponsored by the FSCT. “Coating Wood and Wood Composites: Designing for Durability” will be held July 23-25, 2007, in Seattle, WA. This ACSeries event is co-sponsored with the Journal of Architectural Coatings (JAC).

The symposium on wood coatings follows the very successful one held in 2005 in Charlotte, NC. The FSCT is hoping to build on that success and broaden the attendance to include all groups that affect wood coatings, from those that develop formulations to those involved in maintenance and test­ing of applied products. The inclusion of architects is one major change from the 2005 conference.

According to the FSCT, programming will go a step further than what was presented previously, exploring the ways in which coating performance is dependent upon the architectural design of a building. There is an entire section of the symposium that will be certified by the Architectural Institute of America (AJA).