Catherine Diamond, Associate Editor
The second biennial Eastern Coatings Show was held June 1-4, 2015 at the Trump Taj Mahal Hotel in Atlantic City, NJ. According to organizers, the total number of attendees exceeded one thousand, and included representatives from
China, Germany and Canada, as well as U.S. attendees from
six Northeastern, six Mid-Atlantic, six Southeastern, five Gulf,
eight Midwestern and six Western states.
Three breakfast sessions – held on June 2, 3 and 4 – each
featured a keynote speaker. The first was Robert Fry, who was
named by the Wall Street Journal, USA Today and Bloomberg
as one of the country’s top economic forecasters. He and his
colleague, Bob Shrouds, won the prestigious Lawrence R. Klein
Award for Blue Chip Forecast Accuracy.
The second day’s breakfast highlighted Dee Schlotter, a key
member of the PPG Global Color Styling Team whose function
is to develop the color trends for the upcoming year for all of
PPG’s business units including the automotive, the consumer
electronic appliances, the aerospace and the architectural areas.
The Special Breakfast on the Show’s last day focused
on Jeff Spillane, senior manager, Training Implementation,
at the Benjamin Moore Company. Spillane’s address ana-
lyzed the relationship between the future and the past in the
Coatings industry with an emphasis on what has changed
and what is next.
Becoming a tradition at the Eastern Coatings is the award-
ing, by Harley McNair, of the Pflaumer Brothers Awards for
the best technical papers presented at the Show. The first
place award was earned by Paul Mills of Plasmatreat, North
America, for his paper entitled “UV Cure Powder Coatings
for Plastics;” Brian Casey of Evonik took second place with
his paper entitled “Novel Silicone Resin Technology for High
Temperature Applications.”
Concluding this session was a panel discussion entitled
“The Science Behind New Industrial Coatings Demands and
Application Evaluation.” The panel consisted of Dr. Jason
Anagnostis of Absolute Coatings, Inc., Valerie Sherbondy of
The second biennial show again exceeded expectations.
Eastern Coatings
Show 2015
