"Our businesses skillfully navigated supply chain tightness, cost inflation, macroeconomic challenges, and foreign exchange headwinds to expand margins and deliver record first-quarter financial results," said RPM chairman and CEO Frank C. Sullivan.
The partnership will provide a broader portfolio of high-performance polymers and pigment dispersions to coatings manufacturers, while continuing to offer enhanced technological expertise and exceptional formulation support.
Led by color expert and stylist Sara McLean, Dunn-Edwards takes on an extensive anthropological study of color to annually identify a Color of the Year that is predictive and forward-thinking of the year ahead and beyond.
The partnership will "provide customers with formulation and application solutions to take a leading position in the polyurethane market,” said Anna Diretto, Vencorex regional sales manager for the United States and Canada.
The new facility represents an important milestone for its parent company, Bozkurt Plant Engineering,
towards its goal of creating a significant, competitive advantage for BOCE clients and partners in the aerospace, automotive, agricultural, and electronics industry of North America.
Palmer Holland will be a channel partner in the United States and Canada for the company's Purmol line of molecular sieves. Purmol powders are excellent moisture scavengers for polyurethane coatings, adhesives, sealants, and elastomers.
Chicago-headquartered specialty chemical company Hallstar announced this past July its intention to buy the manufacturing facility in Greensboro, North Carolina from another specialty chemicals company.
The AMPP's new director brings over a decade of experience working in project and general management for an industrial painting contractor focused on bridge preservation and protective coatings.