customers of key market segments with
technical support, collaboration, and
expertise while delivering high quality
coating solutions. Those working within
the lab include product formulators and
chemists, segment technology leaders,
color matching specialists, and analytical
chemists. All are working diligently as a
group to provide the service, quality, and
innovation expected from the premium
brand, TCI Powder Coatings.
Axalta Acquires CH
Coatings AG, Swiss
Importer of Premium
Refinish Brand Spies Hecker
Axalta Coating Systems has signed an
agreement to acquire CH Coatings AG, a
leading importer and distributor throughout Switzerland of Spies Hecker, one of
Axalta’s premium refinish brands, in addition to Perco Top, Axalta’s premium line
of industrial coatings, and Axalta’s powder coatings, which include the Alesta
brand family.
“CH Coatings has been successfully
operating throughout Switzerland for
many years and, like Axalta, always
puts customers at the centre of its focus. With a team that has many years of
experience in the refinish, commercial
vehicle, and industrial coatings sector,
CH Coatings has an in-depth understanding of the Swiss market and expert technical know-how,” says Adrien
Schrobiltgen, Axalta’s Vice President
for Refinish Systems in Europe, Middle
East and Africa.
PPG Foundation Supports
Science Projects for Dr.
Nick Osborne Primary
Center
The Dr. Nick Osborne Primary Center
in Mount Vernon, Illinois, received
support through the PPG Foundation
to fund several projects that provide
hands-on learning opportunities in the
fields of science, technology, engineer-
ing and mathematics. Teacher Paula
Metcalf worked with James
Hicks, whose granddaughter
attends the center and who is
a batchman at the local PPG
industrial coatings plant in Mount
Vernon, and his PPG colleagues Rick
Mayberry and Nate Perkins to apply
for the funding.
Hicks sponsored two grants, for
science learning centers and instant
learning activity tubs for kindergarten
through third-grade students. Mayberry
sponsored grants for physical, life and
space science exploration labs and activity kits for fourth- and fifth-grade
students as well as science kits and
engineering centers for kindergarten
through fifth-grade students. Real-world STEM Challenge kits were purchased with Perkins’ grant support.
“It’s exciting to help our community in this way, and we are proud that
my granddaughter and her classmates
will benefit from these STEM kits,”
Hicks said.
At Palmer Holland, we love the process of
ideation, troubleshooting, and finding solutions.
We push ourselves to understand your products
and strive to go where you wouldn’t expect
normal chemical distributors to go. Think of us
as an additive to your team, bringing an outside
view in when and where you need it most.
