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Milis Rodrigues Joins ChemQuest as Commercial Director South America
The ChemQuest Group has appointed Milis Rodrigues as commercial director South America. In this role, Rodrigues will serve as a client resource while also exploring business development opportunities in Brazil and throughout South America. Rodrigues began her 33-year career in the paints and coatings industry as an R&D formulator with AkzoNobel before rising within the organization to positions of increasing responsibility.
ChemQuest Names Susan Sutton Director of Communications
The ChemQuest Group has appointed Susan Sutton its new director of communications. During nearly 24 years of editorial and content development experience in B2B publishing, Sutton covered industries ranging from adhesives and sealants to specialty chemicals and advanced materials. Most recently, she served as editor-in-chief, integrated media for Adhesives & Sealants Industry magazine, where she was responsible for the publication’s eMagazine and website content.
Abe Rezai Joins ChemQuest as Senior Vice President
Abe Rezai has joined ChemQuest as senior vice president. Rezai will support strategy development and key client engagements for the firm, including projects related to business transformation, technology development, and advisement for mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures. His success in this position will be driven by his extensive background in technical and executive management roles for global organizations within the specialty chemicals and consumer products industries.
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U.S. Market Analysis for the Paint & Coatings Industry (2023 – 2028)
Global Market Analysis for the Paint & Coatings Industry (2024 – 2029)
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Breaking the Ice: The Innovative World of Icephobic Coatings
Icephobicity is defined as the ability of a solid surface to repel ice or prevent ice-film formation due to topographical structures at the ice-surface interface. Icephobic coatings are formulated to ensure that ice doesn’t accumulate on or strongly attach to a surface. In fact, fully functional icephobic coatings operate on several different levels. They can have the ability to repel water droplets, delay ice nucleation, and/or reduce ice adhesion.
What’s Important to the Future of the Coatings Industry: Highlights from the 2023-2028 U.S. Market Analysis
Operating profitably amid economic and geopolitical challenges and severe supply-chain pressures requires broad insight. With informed analysis and five-year projections for sector and segment performance, the “U.S. Market Analysis for the Paint and Coatings Industry, 2023-2028” identifies key market opportunities and growth drivers so purchasers can gain a competitive advantage.
Pursuing Profitable Growth Strategies: A Case Study in Value Creation
It seems logical that all companies would place a high priority on fully evaluating and implementing the ideal profitable growth strategies for their business, but this is not always the case. Why? The answer often lies in limited resources. Astute companies often use a team of third-party experts as an extension of their management team to expand the bandwidth needed to drive success.
U.S. Coatings Industry: Looking Behind and Ahead
The U.S. Market Analysis for the Paint and Coatings Industry, 2023-2028, written by ChemQuest in partnership with the American Coatings Association, will be released in March of this year. The previous industry analysis and forecast for the period 2019-2024 was published on March 1, 2020. We all can remember how the world — and our industry — changed just a few weeks later due to the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent economic, manufacturing, and supply chain issues.
Three Global Megatrends Represent Opportunities for the Coatings Industry
In many ways, 2023 brought a feeling of “normalcy,” as the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and numerous supply chain disruptions receded further into history. Challenges certainly remain (including economic uncertainty and increasing regulatory pressures, among others), but opportunities abound for innovative companies in the coatings industry.
Replacing Materials of Concern in Your Specialty Chemicals Formulations
Volatile organic compounds (VOCs). Isocyanates. Crystalline silica. Regulations regarding materials of concern are becoming increasingly complex all around the world, and the list of “concerning” materials only continues to grow. For this reason and others (e.g., supply chain constraints), developing a protocol for materials replacement is a necessity for those operating in the specialty chemicals sector.
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