PPG Distributor
The idea for the pink M’s took root
when a Moran employee asked Tregurtha
for approval to paint one on a single tug-
boat to honor a family member. When
the company president floated the idea to
other Moran ports, he said the response
was so overwhelming that he autho-
rized it for the company’s entire fleet of
tugboats, which are used to push barges
and guide ships in waters from New
Donates Pink Tugboat
Paint to Increase
Hampshire to Texas.
Breast Cancer
Awareness
For more than 130 years,
Moran Towing Corporation’s fleet of tugboats had been recognized for the signature white “M” painted on their stacks.
This October, company president Ted
Tregurtha and a donation of PITT-TECH
Plus marine paint from PPG Industries
distributor Armorica Sales collaborated
to adorn the well-known industry emblem in pink on 100 tugboats to promote
breast cancer awareness.
Sika products. These “invisible” high
performance products are designed to
help the automotive industry find practi-
cal solutions to current issues in vehicle
construction, such as crash resistance and
lightweight design.
Sika showcased its own technologies
during an event held in Switzerland for
media representatives and analysts, tak-
ing the latest European premium brand
vehicle models as an example. Sika‘s CEO,
Jan Jenisch, told the audience: “Sika cur-
rently generates around 20 percent of sales
in the vehicles industry. We are well placed
to exploit the huge potential in the growth
markets of the future, such as China, and
to further extend our leading position.
“Sika‘s adhesives and processing materials are helping to drive forward the
megatrends in the automotive industry:
electromobility, lightweight design and
bonding various, very different materials.
For example, carbon fibers and aluminum can only be adhesively bonded together; they cannot be welded.” CW
Armorica Sales, a longtime distributor of PPG protective and marine coatings based in Staten Island, New York,
donated the coating after owners Mike
Anderson and John Tretout received an
order for Pitt-Tech Plus paint in Tickled
Pink from Larry Bencivenga, Moran’s
port engineer. Pitt-Tech Plus paint is a
100-percent acrylic industrial enamel
that provides excellent corrosion protection and chemical and solvent resistance
for direct-to-metal (DTM) applications.
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