This year's programme for the CEPE Annual Conference addressed a range of issues that will have impact on our industry, with a particular focus on the trends and hands that will shape our future. In front of some 140 conference attendees, CEPE's Managing Director Jan van der Meulen asked in his welcome address: "Where are the hands that will hold the brush?" One factor that is increasingly shaping the decorative coatings market is the manual application of the paints. A huge part of the plenary session was dedicated to his question and hence to ...