The scholarship program that honors the first executive director of the Chemical Coaters Association International (CCAI) aims to attract new talent to the industrial finishing and surface coating technologies industry. The application deadline is April 15, 2023.

Salvat will continue to report to PPG senior vice president and general counsel, Anne Foulkes.The new appointee succeeds Ram Vadlamannati, who will transition to a new PPG role. 

With its 2023 Color Trend Report, the company announced four feature colors that highlight color and design trends for the coming year. According to Diamond Vogel, each color expresses important architectural and lifestyle influences, providing key inspiration for today’s home.

Advanced Polymer Coatings (APC) has announced the passing of its founder, Donald Keehan, on December 28, 2022. Keehan was 87.

Applied through a plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition process (PECVD), ultra-thin PlasmaGuard™ nanocoatings are environmentally friendly, halogen-free, and provide excellent splash-proof and waterproof barrier protection to a wide range of electronic components and devices.

While specific details of the terms of the partnership will remain confidential, the definitive agreement includes a five-year period of exclusivity for this key customer, who will deploy the TRIO™ for consumer electronics applications.

RPM reports its fiscal 2023 second-quarter sales were driven by increased pricing in response to continued inflation. In addition, volume grew in businesses that are benefiting from reshoring and infrastructure spending, and material supply improved through insourcing and qualifying new suppliers.

The new center serves as the primary shipping facility within the United Kingdom for the company’s cleaning fluids and tools. The new facility will provide access to thousands of SKUs, as well as product staging, kitting, and packing capabilities. It will also serve as the MicroCare U.K. Ltd. office headquarters.

PPG announced several leadership appointments, effective immediately. One of the company’s leaders will transition to lead a newly created PPG operations organization. PPG’s operations organization will encompass supply chain, operational excellence, manufacturing operations, procurement, and environment, health, and safety functions.

RPM’s last cash dividend increase of 5% in October 2022 marked the company’s 49th consecutive year of increased cash dividends paid to its stockholders, which places RPM in a category of less than half of 1% of all publicly traded U.S. companies.