Wayne T. Smith is the new Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of BASF Corp., Florham Park, NJ, as of May 1, 2015.

The Wisconsin Committee for Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve (ESGR), an agency of the U.S. Department of Defense, honored Linetec’s Paint Operations Manager Paul Bratz with a Patriot Award.

National Coatings Corp. announced that Andy Eisner has joined the company as the new District Sales Manager serving the Gulf – Southeast Region.

Anthony (Tony) Carignano has recently joined PCT Engineered Systems’ global sales and marketing team.

Kevin Monti has joined specialty chemicals distributor Palmer Holland as a Southwest Region Account Manager.

HORN announced that industry expert Darin Shields has joined the company’s technical sales team.

Weathering testing company Q-Lab announced that Sean Fowler, a Technical Marketing Specialist at the company, was recently appointed Vice Chairman of the U.S. Technical Advisory Group of TC156 for ISO.

Resinate Materials Group has appointed Brian Chermside President of the company, taking over from current President Brian Phillips.

HORN, a distributor of specialty ingredients, chemicals and raw materials, announced that John Jordan has joined the company as Logistics Manager.

Michelman has hired Bill Magee to be the Group Director, Printing & Packaging.