Sherwin-Williams forms agreement with
Choice Hotels to supply paints and coatings
Sherwin-Williams, North America’s largest
supplier of products to the property maintenance and hospitality market, and Choice
Hotels, one of the nation’s leading lodging
companies, have formed a supply agreement
under which Sherwin-Williams’ extensive
portfolio of paints and coatings are specified to be used in all Choice Hotels brands:
Comfort Inn, Comfort Suites, Quality, Sleep
Inn, Clarion, Cambria Suites, MainStay
Suites, Suburban Extended Stay Hotel,
Econo Lodge, and Rodeway Inn, and the
Ascend Collection membership program.
Sherwin-Williams National Account
programs are designed to help hotel owners
and managers maximize efficiencies.
Through the program, Sherwin-Williams
serves as a single-source partner, offering
complete standardization of color and quality, allowing Choice Hotels brands to maintain consistency in their projects from coast
to coast. Sherwin-Williams will also work
to consolidate orders and directly source
products in order to achieve a higher financial return. At the same time, Sherwin-Williams can create product specifications
and simplify supplier transitions.
quirements for slip and creep resistance
(0.65). Zinc Clad DOT can be used as a
one-coat maintenance coating or a perma-
nent primer for severe corrosive environ-
ments and is a qualified product per
Northeast Protective Coating Committee
(NEPCOAT) requirements for new and ex-
isting steel bridges. It is also ideal for ap-
plication at low temperatures or service at
high temperatures and/or humidity. CW
Index to Companies
This index gives the starting page for a department or feature with a signifi-
cant reference to a manufacturer of paint, coatings, adhesives and sealants.
Subsidiaries are indexed under their own names.
New Zinc Clad DOT inorganic
zinc-rich coating for steel
bridge
Steel fabricators increasingly need primers
that meet EPA content restrictions on haz-
ardous air pollutants (HAPS) while also of-
fering protection on structural steel
bridges, where coatings are subject to ex-
treme corrosion due to weather and road
salts. Sherwin-Williams has introduced
Zinc Clad DOT, an inorganic zinc rich
primer that is highly resistant to corrosion,
high heat, humidity and salt fog, and is
HAPS-free as supplied. This new fast dry-
ing primer has a smooth finish that requires
less labor and sanding between coats than
other zinc-rich coatings. For use over pre-
pared steel, Zinc Clad DOT can be applied
in the shop or field. In addition, the new
coating forms an inorganic barrier to mois-
ture and solvents and meets Class B re-
3M......................................................... 42
AkzoNobel............................................. 10, 42, 76
BASF .............................................. 10, 30, 58, 76
Benjamin Moore .............................................. 10
CVCThermosetSpecialties ...................................... 76
DuPont .................................................. 10, 30
EcologyCoatings.............................................. 10
GeneralPaint................................................. 10
HBFuller.................................................... 36
Hempel .................................................. 10, 30
HMGPaint.................................................. 42
IdeaPaint.................................................... 10
IntegratedGreen Technologies.................................... 10
Jotun....................................................... 10
Kelly-Moore ................................................. 42
LINE-X..................................................... 42
LordCorp................................................... 42
MatrixSystem............................................. 10, 58
MetoKote ................................................... 10
NEICorp.................................................... 42
NuSilTechnology.............................................. 42
PPG ............................................ 10, 30, 76, 58, 82
RPM ....................................................... 10
Sansin ...................................................... 42
Seal-Krete ................................................... 42
Sherwin-Williams............................................8, 42
Valspar...................................................... 30
WatsonStandard........................................... 10, 76
Whitford ................................................. 10, 76
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