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ITW Polymers Coatings Opens New Manufacturing Plant

ITW Polymers Coatings North America

(Montgomeryville, Pennsylvania) opened its new-

est 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 environ-

ment, 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

William “Doni” Riddle of The Sherwin-

Williams 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

Award is one of the most prestigious recognitions

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 indi-

viduals 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,

delivers comprehensive solutions and on-site service

to promote safe food, maintain clean environments,

optimize water and energy use, and improve op-

erational 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, Cali-

fornia), a testing

a n d a d v i s o r y

group, appointed

Mike Pooley as its

new European

managing director

to lead its contin-

ued 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.

Castolin Eutectic Acquires Coatings Group

Castolin Eutectic (Bad Soden, Germany) ac-

quired 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-

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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 De-

partment of Rice University, the consortium per-

forms research, testing, education, and technology

transfer to solve problems related to brine produc-

tion in the oil and gas industry. According to BWA

Water Additives Executive Chairman and CEO

David W. Cartmell, “Partnership with the con-

sortium 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

R u b b e r C o .

(Bruns wick, Ohio)

announced that

Jeffrey Rog joined

its senior manage-

ment staff. Rog

will initially man-

age 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.”

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