Coatings World - October 2011

IPPIC president for four years. McPherson served as CEO or managing director of Courtaulds Chemicals and AkzoNobel businesses for 24 years. He retired from AkzoNobel in 2010 as president of its International Paint division.

CVC Thermoset Specialties
makes new appointments

CVC Thermoset Specialties, an Emerald Performance Materials Company, has made two appointments. Walt Bustynowicz has been named vice president global sales. In this role, Bustynowicz will assume all management responsibilities for sales internationally through CVC’s distributors overseas and sales agents in the U.S.

Charles Zarnitz has been named product manager, epoxies. In this role, Zarnitz will support the technical, training and development needs of the company’s epoxy business unit.

BASF names Vitor Margaronis
marketing director
BASF Automotive Refinish has named
Vitor Margaronis as marketing director
for BASF Coatings, North America. In
his new role, Vitor is responsible for di-
recting the marketing activities of the
BASF automotive refinish, OEM, indus-
trial and commercial transport systems
businesses. Vitor joins BASF
North America Coatings after a
10-year history that began at
BASF in Canada. During his
tenure, Vitor has held several manage-
ment level positions with increasing re-
sponsibility in the areas of marketing,
finance, logistics operations and project
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Whitford adds OEM manager
to its Flexible Finishes division
in North America

Whitford has hired Lenni Dailey to manage its OEM automotive business for Flexible main function was to educate engineers on coatings and the critical factors that make those coatings perform.

Lenni Dailey

PPG Aerospace names Cancilla coatings director, Wright transparencies director PPG Industries’ aerospace business has named Mark Cancilla global platform director for coatings. As global platform director for coatings, Cancilla succeeds Brian Roberson, who has relocated to join PPG’s architectural coatings business in Australia. Brent Wright has been named global platform director for transparencies, succeeding Cancilla.

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