Kerry Pianoforte, Editor
The Eastern Coatings Show opened May 15th with a poolside networking reception at Harrah’s Casino. The next day the show formally commenced with an exhibition featuring more than 150 exhibitors and a technical session.
Now in its third year, the biennial Eastern Coatings Show has
demonstrated impressive growth. This year’s show had approximately 1,200 attendees, which surpassed the expectations of the
Eastern Coatings Federation, who organized the show.
“We anticipated growth, but the show is growing far better
than we expected,” said Bob Whiteley, vice president marketing
& sales at JNS-Smithchem LLC. “The number of people attend-ing the technical papers has been really high, and attendance has
surpassed the 2015 show.”
Technical Program
The Eastern Coatings Show featured an impressive technical
program that was comprised of 44 speakers and three concurrent tracks covering UV curing, resin technology, additives, colors and pigments, pigment dispersions, functional ;llers and
resins. In addition, a Coatings Short Course was presented in
cooperation with the University of Southern Mississippi School
of Polymers and Higher Performance Materials.
“This impressive program presents a valuable opportunity
for attendees to gain exposure to the latest trends and technology in all these areas as they relate to the paints and coatings
and allied industries,” said David White, Technical Committee
chairman. “The Eastern Coatings Show has exceeded our expectations. All of the technical talks have been full, and the short
course had very good attendance. Traf;c on the show ;oor has
been excellent.”
Awards and honors
Members of the Eastern Coatings Show board of directors honored Rick Mazzarello, president of Enrichem Specialties with a
Lifetime Achievement Award.
To further industry innovation, the P;aumer Honors for
Innovation Awards for new coating technology were presented
to honor and recognize the top two technical papers showing
the most outstanding technical innovation. Bob Lin of Evonik
Industries was honored for his presentation on “Novel Synthetic
Silica Matting Agent for Polyaspartic Coatings.” Paul Fithian
of Bruggemann Chemical was also recognized for his presenta-
tion on “Using Redox Reactions in Emulsion Polymerization to
Reduce Free Monomer After the Main Polymerization.”
“We are excited about being the sponsor for the third Eastern
Coatings Show and to give these awards for papers showing
outstanding technical innovation,” said Harley McNair, presi-
dent of P;aumer Brothers.
Commenting on the ;nal day of the show Daniel T. Canavan
III, vice president of D.B. Becker, a Maroon Group LLC
Company and president of the Eastern Coatings Federation
said, “The show has been fantastic this year. We’ve had record
attendance and the technical sessions have been so well attend-
ed. Our goal and objective here is really for the chemists and
other technical folks to come, learn and share. My expectations
have been ful;lled. We are excited for 2019.”
For more information on the Eastern Coating Show, go to
www.easterncoatingsshow.com. CW
Biennial show featured more than 150 exhibitors and 44 technical presentations.
Eastern Coatings Show
Continues to Grow
Members of the Eastern Coatings Show board
of directors honored Rick Mazzarello, president
of Enrichem Specialties with a Lifetime
Achievement Award.
