• Purchase and Ship Paint
Orders – Customers can also
order samples, so they can conveniently test a variety of colors
before picking the perfect one.
The ColorSmart by BEHR Digital
Paint Store can be accessed at http://behr.
com/ColorSmart or http://homedepot.
colorsmartbybehr.com.
LORD Corporation
Announces 2014 President’s
Circle Award Recipients
LORD Corporation has announced
the recipients of the 2014 President’s
Circle Award. The inductees to the
President’s Circle are Jim Nietupski,
key account manager, sales & marketing, Aerospace & Defense Eastern
Regional Sales; and GuoZhong Qin,
sales supervisor, Industrial Rubber to
Substrate, China Sales.
The President’s Circle Award was
established to recognize extraordinary
sales professionals around the world
for their exceptional achievements and
critical contributions. Award criteria
are based on achieving major commercial success and converting potential
sales opportunities to measurable stake-holder value. In addition, each nominee
must consistently demonstrate to customers that LORD teams are approachable, innovative, responsive, valuable
and agile.
“Each of this year’s recipients has demonstrated extraordinary personal leadership, talent, hard work and persistence
to achieve, and often surpass, challenging
goals,” said Ed Auslander, president and
CEO of LORD Corporation.
Based in Pennsylvania, Jim Nietupski
was honored in recognition of his account leadership managing LORD
Corporation’s collaboration with
Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation and
Boeing Helicopters, for which LORD
serves as a major supplier on rotary
wing aircraft.
Based in China, GuoZhong Qin was
honored in recognition of his leadership
on automotive and industrial key ac-
counts, helping customers solve problems
and reduce costs through the application
of LORD rubber-to-substrate high-per-
formance adhesives.
Nietupski and Qin were recognized at the August LORD Board of
Directors dinner.
U.S. Green Building
Council and the American
Chemistry Council to Work
Together to Advance LEED
The U.S. Green Building Council
(USGBC) and the American Chemistry
Council (ACC) have formed a new initiative designed to ensure the use of sustainable and environmentally protective
products in buildings by applying technical and science-based approaches to the
LEED green building program. This new
initiative acknowledges USGBC’s success
in leading the transformation of the built
environment and sets up a pathway to
take advantage of the materials science
expertise of ACC and its members.
“USGBC and ACC share the goal of
advancing sustainability in the built en-
vironment, and we will work together to
take advantage of our collective strength
and experience,” said Rick Fedrizzi, presi-
dent, CEO and founding chair, USGBC.
“The looming impacts of climate change
and the possibilities of improving human
health and wellbeing favor collaboration
and engagement as key strategies. The
goal is forward progress.”
ACC president and CEO Cal Dooley
noted, “Modern energy efficiency gains,
building safety advances and carbon
footprint reductions would not be pos-
sible without the products of chemistry.
From windows to insulation, adhesives
to flooring, chemistry provides solutions
that enable the energy efficient and sus-
tainable buildings that consumers expect
in today’s world. By combining USGBC,
a leader of the green building movement,
with the scientific know-how of ACC, we
can develop a path to stronger, science-
based standards that achieve measurable
progress in sustainability.”
LEED is regularly updated through
a rigorous development process that in-
cludes public comments, technical review
and balloting. USGBC and ACC will
work within that framework to incorpo-
rate state-of-the-art safety, sustainability
and life-cycle based approaches to LEED.
LEED has facilitated advances in build-
ing technologies, integrated design and
operating practices, as well as the tremen-
dous growth of the green building sector,
which supports or creates 7. 9 million jobs
across all 50 states and contributes $554
billion to the U.S. economy annually.
The American business of chemistry
employs nearly 800,000 Americans and
supports nearly 25 percent of the U.S.
GDP. Chemistry-based plastic building
and construction materials saved 467.2
trillion BTUs of energy over alternative
construction materials – enough energy saved over the course of a year to
meet the average annual energy needs
of 4. 6 million U.S. households. Energy
savings made possible by innovations
in chemistry in homes in the U.S. prevented nearly 283 million tons of CO2
emissions in 2010—equivalent to the
greenhouse gas emissions of 50 million
passenger vehicles.
Eastern Coatings Show
Issues Call for Papers
The Eastern Coatings Federation, Inc.,
announced that it will be hosting the
Second Eastern Coatings Show at the
Taj Mahal in Atlantic City, New Jersey
from May 18-21, 2015. The show will
open with a reception on the evening of
May 18th followed by the presentation
of technical papers on May 19th, 20th
and the morning of May 21st. The show
producers expect an attendance of over
1,000 throughout the Show’s run.
Dave White, the chair of the Technical
Papers Committee, has requested that
companies take advantage of this unique
opportunity to make presentations of the
various aspects wherein the Coatings industry has moved forward technological-ly. Presentations should last from twenty
to thirty minutes. Speaker slots will be
arranged on a first-come, first-serve basis.
The ECS Technical Committee will be responsible for coordinating the Speakers
and the agenda.
The criteria, according to White,
will include an abstract of the presentation to be forwarded to him by the
deadline of January 1, 2015 together
with a biography and photo of the
