Coatings World - August 2008

Fresh Paint

BASF joins creative forces with Chip Foose

executive director effective July 8, 2008. Following Pontoski’s resignation, Pat Ziegler will be appointed FSCT staff director, responsible for managing the day to day administrative functions of the Plymouth Meeting, PA office while maintaining her current responsibilities as director of communications. The remaining duties of the executive director’s position will be combined into the office of the FSCT CEO.

The partnership between BASF and Chip Foose is aimed at promoting BASF waterborne refinish products and jointly developing “Foose-inspired” BASF automotive refinish colors.

BASF Automotive Refinish Solutions has signed a multi-year agreement with Chip Foose, well-known automotive and product designer, to promote its waterborne automotive refinishes and to develop a new line of automotive refinish colors under the Foose name.

Foose owns Foose Design, a company that specializes in illustration, graphics, ideation model making, surfacing and complete construction of automobiles and automotive related products.

“Chip Foose has long been a friend of BASF and a fan of our automotive refinish paints,” said Darlene Eilenberger, director of marketing for BASF Coatings in North America. “We are very excited about taking our relationship with Chip to a new level as we work with him to create a new line of custom colors.”

BASF will debut its Foose-inspired automotive refinish paint colors later this year.

INDUSTRIAL NANOTECH
CONTINUES TO EXPAND

A fourth NASCAR race team has purchased Industrial Nanotech’s nanotechnology-based coating, NanoBoost, for use on racecars to control heat transfer and improve performance.

NanoBoost is one of the products in the company’s nanotechnology-based Nansulate product line. It has been used by NASCAR races teams and the Ford V8 Supercar team—Betta Electrical— since 2005.

In other news, Chinese distributor, NorthStar Power Engineering, has begun working with a major Asian automotive manufacturer to trial NanoBoost.

“We are excited about the recent events in Asia between our Chinese distributor and this well-known auto maker. We believe we can meet their requirements and satisfy their objectives in fuel and energy savings with our technology,” said Francesca Crolley, VP of operations and marketing for Industrial Nanotech, Inc, Naples, FL. “Other target markets for our fuel saving technology are freight shippers, including the U.S. Postal Service and UPS.”