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Xun Wang, a former Managing Director of PPG Paints Trading, has been indicted on a charge of conspiring to violate the International Emergency Economic Powers Act and the Export Administration Regulations.She is accused of exporting and reexporting high-performance epoxy coatings to the Chashma 2 Nuclear Power Plant in Pakistan.She is a Chinese national and lawful permanent resident of the United States.In 2006, PPG sought an export license for the shipments of coatings to Chashma II. The Department of Commerce denied that license application. Following that denial, Wang and her co-conspirators agreed upon a scheme to export and reexport the high-performance...

Eight Egyptians involved in a botched repair of the famed burial mask of King Tut, which was corrected late last year, were referred to a disciplinary court on Sunday for "gross negligence" after prosecutors said that the golden treasure was scratched. The 3,300-year old mask, whose beard was accidentally knocked off and hastily glued on with epoxy in 2014, was scratched and damaged as a result of the amateur repair job, prosecutors said in a Sunday statement, which implicated the then-head of the Egyptian Museum and the chief of the restoration department. "In an attempt to cover up the damage...

Restorers have put their work on the famed golden burial mask of King Tutankhamun on display in Cairo, over a year after the beard was accidentally knocked off and hastily glued back on with epoxy. A German-Egyptian team of experts showed off the mask in a laboratory in the Egyptian Museum, detailing plans for how the epoxy will be scraped off and the beard carefully removed before being reattached by a method to be determined by a joint scientific committee. Christian Eckmann, the lead restoration specialist, said the work should take a month or two, depending on how long it...

Big Dig officials noted six years ago that epoxy ceiling supports were failing in the tunnel section where a woman was crushed to death this month, but allowed the continued use of that superglue system to support 3-ton concrete slabs, documents obtained by the Herald reveal. A memo written after a January 10, 2000, meeting of project officials notes “an apparent failure of the epoxy” for ceiling anchors in the first 100 feet of the Interstate 90 Seaport connector tunnel. It was in an adjacent section where ceiling panels collapsed and killed Milena Del Valle, 38. The chilling notation was...

According to a "How Epoxy Works" illustration at the link above, there was no pre-mixing of the epoxy. Instead, the "resin and hardener [are] applied separately into the drilled hole" and "screwing the anchor bolt into the hole mixes [the] components." The graphic lists the "1998 State Inspector General Report" as the source, graphic prepared by David Butler of the Globe Staff. Can you all not see a half-dozen ways that is a recipe for disaster? A quick google search about epoxy has most application instructions starting with a mix of the ingredients, either separately or throught the delivery device....