Fresh Paint
SHERWIN-WILLIAMS AWARDED
$24 MILLION U.S. NAVY JIT
MARINE COATINGS CONTRACT
Sherwin-Williams Protective &
Marine Coatings has been awarded a
$24 million, five-year U.S. Navy contract to supply marine coatings per
Just-In-Time (JIT) delivery to four
U.S. Navy shipyards. The company
was one of two low bidders in the first
national comprehensive JIT coatings
contract awarded by the Fleet and
Industrial Supply Center (FISC),
based in Norfolk, Virginia. The overall
value of the contract, awarded over
five years, is approximately $34.5 million. Previous U.S. Navy JIT contracts
had been awarded for individual shipyards. The four shipyards (located in
Norfolk, Virginia; Portsmouth, New
Hampshire; Bremerton, Washington;
and Pearl Harbor, Hawaii) will share
in large batch production of coatings
that will be certified for all four shipyards. Sherwin-Williams will provide
traditional MIL-Spec coatings as well
as new technologies, including Fast
Clad ER Epoxy, SeaGuard HMF and
Euronavy ES301.
RPM ACQUIRES UK-BASED
UNIVERSAL SEALANTS
RPM International Inc. has acquired the
Universal Sealants (U.K.) Limited group
of companies, a UK-based supplier of
coatings and construction products and
services for bridges and large infrastruc-
ture projects. Universal Sealants, which
is headquartered near Newcastle,
England and has sales of approximately
$55 million, will operate as a stand-
alone industrial business in the RPM
Performance Coatings Group. Terms of
the transaction, which is expected to be
accretive to earnings within one year,
were not disclosed. Universal Sealants
manufactures, supplies and installs con-
struction products including waterproof-
ing systems, protective coatings, expan-
sion joints and concrete repair products.
Universal Sealants’ products are prima-
rily used for the construction, mainte-
nance and repair of bridges, parking
structures, tunnels, railways and other
major structures. The company is a mar-
ket leader in the United Kingdom and
Ireland, and has a growing presence in
the Middle East.
HARALD PFLANZL NEW HEAD OF
BASF COATINGS’ AUTOMOTIVE
REFINISH EUROPE BUSINESS UNIT
On January 1, 2010, Harald Pflanzl
became the head of BASF Coatings’
Automotive Refinish Europe business
unit. Pflanzl succeeds Christoph
Hansen, who now heads the Dispersions for Adhesives and Constructions Europe unit in Ludwigshafen. In October 2000, he was
appointed managing director of what is
now BASF Performance Products in
Krieglach, Austria. From 2002 to the
end of 2009, he was responsible for the
admixture business in Northern
Europe. In this position, he was responsible for approximately 30 countries
with 13 production sites. The company’s
customers included ready-mix concrete
and precast concrete companies as well
as manufacturers of concrete products
and construction companies.
DUPONT PERFORMANCE SERVICES
OFFICIALLY LAUNCHED AT NACE
DuPont Performance Coatings (DPC)
officially launched DuPont Per-
formance Services (DPS) at NACE
2009, celebrating its debut with a day
of learning and demonstrations at 911
Collision Center in Henderson, NV,
with close to 500 people in atten-
dance. DPS is a consolidation of prior
DuPont Performance Coatings servic-
es. The DPS offering now includes:
Education, Consulting, Performance
Groups, Tools and Performance
Alliance. As part of that consolidation,
DPC rebranded its Performance
Alliance solution, which now consists
of a suite of consumer-facing market-
ing tools available to its performance-
based network of repair centers. The
NACE event was the culmination of a
year-long process that provided edu-
cation, consulting, performance group,
alliance tools and other aids to help
911 Collision Center achieve its goals.
SSPC’S 2009 OUTSTANDING
PUBLICATION AWARD
International Paint’s technical leadership and business development manager, Vijay Datta, and director of engineering and technical services, Dr.
Mike O’Donoghue, have been named
winners of the Society for Protective
Coatings (SSPC) 2009 Outstanding
Publication Award. The winning
paper, “The VOC Odyssey: An Epic
Tale of the Green World of Coating
Formulators,” first appeared in the
May 2009 issue of Journal of
Protective Coatings & Linings.
NATURAL HISTORY
MUSEUM SPECIFIES INTERPON
The Natural History Museum has
unveiled it’s new £78 million Darwin
Centre in London. Designed to provide
a home for 20 million plant and insect
specimens, it also allows visitors to
interact with the collections and scientists at work. The specimens include
those brought back by Charles Darwin
from his Beagle Voyage in 1831. Over
14 tons of Interpon Powder Coatings
were used on the storage facility within the building. Coated by Cromadex
Tilbury’s customer C&D Sheetmetal
Engineering Ltd, Interpon 610 polyester powder was used on 6,000 storage units in five different sizes. RAL
9006 matt silver was chosen.
KINGSPAN-BENCHMARK & ALCOA
ARCHITECTURAL PRODUCTS JOIN PPG
CERTIFIED METAL PANEL PROGRAM
PPG recently announced that Kingspan-Benchmark and ALCOA Architectural
Products have joined the new PPG
Certified Metal Panel Program
(PPG/CMPP). Administered by the PPG
