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FATIPEC & AITIVA

FATIPEC, the prestigious European Federation of Coatings Scientists and Technicians, since almost 60 years, contributes to spread and improve the scientific culture concerning the Coatings Industry.

For this purpose, FATIPEC organizes every 2 years a very important and well known Congress, which is the major event for all the professionals involved in the concerned industries.

The next FATIPEC Congress will be held in Italy, in the city of Genoa, from 9th to 11th November 2010 organized by AITIVA, the Italian Association founder member of FATIPEC, that already successfully organized previous Congresses: Milan (1959), Florence (1972), Venice (1986) and Turin (2000).

The Italian association AITIVA handle the organisation of the Congress and it is working hard to arrange an event in line with the great FATIPEC tradition. AITIVA is member of UATCM.

UATCM

The Union of Technicians’ Associations of Mediterranean Culture groups together through their national associations, the engineers and technicians of the industries of paints, varnishes, printing inks and adhesives.

Created in 1993 by the Spanish, Italian and French Associations, the Union welcomed afterwards the Algerian, Portuguese and Romanian associations. Steered by a Board consisted of representatives of the member associations, the UATCM aims at promoting in the public interest:

• Exchanges of technology in the fields of paints, varnishes, printing inks, glues and adhesives and their additional sectors: raw materials and equipments, in respect for the existing legislation notably the industrial property,
• Exchanges of ideas between technicians of the professions grouped together in the national associations,
• Improvement of products, limitation of wasting and to encourage the manufacturing process minimizing the pollution of the environment for the benefit of the Industry and the Public.
• Rapid diffusion of scientific and industrial progress by the organization of congresses, seminars and conferences.

It has been pointed out through various actions notably:

• Organization of meetings and conferences with scientific, technical or economic topics
• Awarding of prizes and rewards to help or crown the works presented during these events
• Publication of technical, scientific or economic articles related to the activities in the national associations’ reviews
• Joint organization of training sessions for the technicians of the Union
• Organization of presentations or technical demonstrations of industrial or laboratory equipments and of equipment for raw materials management related to our professions.