Company news ITW Polymers Coatings Opens New Manufacturing Plant
ITW Polymers Coatings North America (Montgomeryville, Pennsylvania) opened its newest manufacturing plant in Houston, Texas. Ground was broken on the 71,000 ft2 (6,595 m2) facility last May and the frst batches of material were produced this past February. The factory combines the operations of two smaller facilities into one state-of-the-art manufacturing environment, and joins other existing ITW Polymers Coatings facilities in Oxford, Michigan, and Montgomeryville, Pennsylvania. The new plant is ISO 9001:2008-certifed, and approved by the U.S. Navy to manufacture MIL-SPEC deck coatings.
Riddle Wins John D. Keane Award of Merit
delivers comprehensive solutions and on-site service to promote safe food, maintain clean environments, optimize water and energy use, and improve operational effciencies for customers in the food, health care, energy, hospitality, and industrial markets in more than 170 countries around the world.
Exova Appoints New European Managing Director Exova (Santa Fe Springs, California), a testing and advisory group, appointed Mike Pooley as its new European managing director to lead its continued market growth. He joins Exova from CHEP, a provider of pallet and container pooling services, where he was senior vice president for sales and customer operations and responsible for managing $1.2 billion in annual revenue. At Exova, Pooley will have responsibility for 36 testing facilities and over 1,000 experts across Europe who will be supporting customers in the aerospace, oil and gas, pharmaceutical, food, and industrials sectors.
William “Doni” Riddle of The SherwinWilliams Co. (Cleveland, Ohio) was presented with the John D. Keane Award of Merit by SSPC: The Society for Protective Coatings. The award recognizes outstanding leadership and signifcant contributions to the development of the protective coatings industry and SSPC. “The John D. Keane Castolin Eutectic Acquires Award is one of the most prestigious recognitions Coatings Group that the SSPC Board of Governors presents, and it is not given every year,” says SSPC Executive Director Bill Shoup. “It is awarded to those individuals who have shown dedication to SSPC and the coatings industry in general.”
Ecolab Purchases Champion Technologies Ecolab, Inc. (St. Paul, Minnesota) closed its acquisition of Champion Technologies and its related company Corsicana Technologies. The 2012 sales of the acquired businesses were ~$1.3 billion, and the total transaction value, including assumed debt, was ~$2.3 billion. Ecolab, with 2012 sales of $12 billion and 41,000 associates, NACE International, Vol. 52, No. 6
Castolin Eutectic (Bad Soden, Germany) acquired privately held Monitor Coatings Group. With facilities in the United Kingdom, Singapore, and China, Monitor Coatings provides technology for surface engineering in extreme environments and serves customers in the oil and gas, steel, power, and aerospace industries. Monitor Coatings oper-
ates to the highest quality standards recognized throughout the world, including ISO 9001, AS9100, and NADCAP accreditation.
BWA Joins Brine Chemistry Consortium BWA Water Additives (Tucker, Georgia) joined the Rice Brine Chemistry Consortium. Part of the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department of Rice University, the consortium performs research, testing, education, and technology transfer to solve problems related to brine production in the oil and gas industry. According to BWA Water Additives Executive Chairman and CEO David W. Cartmell, “Partnership with the consortium and its member companies will help us to better understand the challenges with scale control applications in the oil and gas market and bring us closer to our customers.”
Rog Joins Philpott Energy The Philpott Rubber Co. (Brunswick, Ohio) announced that Jeffrey Rog joined its senior management staff. Rog will initially manage the company’s wholly owned subsidiary, Philpott Energy & Transportation Co. (PETCO) as its vice president. According to Philpott CEO Mike Baach, “We are thrilled that Jeff agreed to join us. His more than 25 years in organizing and managing marketing, sales, and feld operations provide PETCO a critical element for achieving our growth strategy in the provision of environmentally friendly completion fuids in the shale gas market.” MP welcomes submissions of Company News. Please send photos and information to Husna Miskinyar; e-mail: husna.miskinyar@nace.org.
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