Upcoming PNWSCT and Related Events
Member Outing (tentative)
- Minor League Baseball Game
- Eugene Emeralds versus Hillsboro Hops
- at PK Park (2800 Martin Luther King Jr Blvd, Eugene, OR 97401)
- August 22, 6:35PM PST
Did you know that the Eugene Emeralds are a farm team for the San Francisco Giants and the Hillsboro Hops are a farm team for the Arizona Diamondbacks??
Speaker Tour Events
June 2025 Speaker Tour
- Event Dates
- Tuesday June 24th – Vancouver, BC
- Wednesday June 25th – Portland, OR
- Thursday June 26th – Eugene, OR
- Guest Speaker: Michael Johnson of Nabaltec
July 2025 Speaker Tour
- Event Dates: TBD
- Guest Speaker: Sudarshan Chemical
Quarterly Board of Directors Meeting
1Q25 – January, virtual meeting2Q25 – May, in person meeting- 3Q25 – August, virtual meeting
- 4Q25 – October, in person during WCS
If you are interested in taking a more active role in PNWSCT, please contact any officer for more information on how to become a member of the board.
37th Biennial Western Coatings Symposium and Show
- Location: Paris Las Vegas Hotel, Las Vegas, NV
- Dates: October 19-22, 2025
- Registration:
- Open Now!!
- Early bird registration available until August 31, 2025
- PNWSCT members eligible for membership registration cost
2026 NW CoatingsFest (planning underway)
- Location: Victoria, BC
- Dates TBD but expected October 2026
Come Join us for the 2024
JR Memorial Golf Tournament
This golf tournament held in honor of John Riddell is traditionally held in partnership with PAC – Packaging group.
In 2019 we raised $4,600 for BC Children’s hospital.
This year we hope to do even better!
Come out “Fore” a great cause and have fun with colleagues
A great dinner and bragging prizes are included in the fee or consider being a hole Sponsor
Registration Form
For details about this event, please visit our symposium information pages, here, including the 2024 Coatings Fest event registration.
VANCOUVER PNWSCT
CHRISTMAS LUNCHEON AND TOY DRIVE!
Come join your industry friends and colleagues and share some Holiday Cheer! We invite all PNWSCT members to a Christmas themed Lunch at Cloverdale Head office on Dec 12th, 12-2pm
We are planning to have a guest speaker (TBA)
In lieu of paying for lunch we would love for you to instead bring either a wrapped Toy or a Cash donation for the Surrey Christmas Bureau. They help low income families in the local areas with Toys, Stocking Stuffers and Grocery cards.
If you are a supplier or distributor PLEASE sponsor this event ($100+ suggested), please reach out to Nathan Mah nmah@emcochem.ca.
Please RSVP by December 5th to: Andreas Kistler Akistler@Azelis.com, or if you have any questions.
When: Thursday, 12th December at 12pm
11:30 am Registration
12:00 Speaker
12:30 Lunch
Where: Cloverdale Corporate Office Boardroom, 4th Floor
#400 – 2630 Croydon Drive
Surrey, BC V3Z 6T3
Cost: Free, but cash donation or Toy gift for Christmas Bureau appreciated
Food: Served 3 course Christmas Lunch
Bio Mark, Senior Technical Manager – Fire Safety, brings 35 years in Hexion’s Springfield R&D lab focusing on adhesive and fire-resistant coatings standards development as well as product development of intumescent coatings for fire protection of wood utility structures, structural wood panels, and Wildland Urban Interface compliant protection. He is a voting member of the ASTM committees D07-Wood, D14-Adhesives, E05-Fire as well as serving on the structural panel standards revision committees for PS1-Plywood and PS2-OSB.
Abstract Answering “how to protect treated wood utility poles from burning in a wildfire,” from feasibility to launching a solution for the utility industry. Overcoming the challenges of developing testing protocols to verify fire protection performance, weatherability, environmental impact, robust installation procedures while ensuring line-worker safety. We will discuss intumescent formulation, application to the woven substrate, the research behind current testing protocols, our approach to performance verification, and the issues we encountered along the way.