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Paint Consultant - Coating Consultant - Resin and Coatings Development
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Areas
of Technical Expertise
Management
Experience - Ron has over twenty five years of Upper Level
Management experience in global technology planning and project
direction, including Vice President of Research and Technology.
Developed a strong, loyal team of innovative Research Chemists
dedicated to producing ecologically safe coatings for the
automotive, aerospace, coil building, appliance, packaging
and the graphic arts industries. Ron has achieved outstanding
results while in leadership positions through the use of multiple
techniques including: project planning, accountability management,
cross functional product development teams, customer based
commercial development teams, and brain storming. He was awarded
over 50 U.S. and Foreign patents over the last thirty years.
Published in the'Industrial Finishing' and 'Product Finishing'
magazines, Journal of ACS, Internationally recognized speaker
at ECCA in Brussels, POSCO International Automotive Symposium
in S. Korea, and the NCCA in the USA.
Technical
expertise:
- Resin
and Coatings Development - Higher solids oligomers (polyester,
step growth and epoxy ester types), water born polyester
and acrylic dispersion and latex, ultra durable polyesters,
low cure polyester and acrylics, silicon polyester, fluoropolymer
compositions, and UV curable oligomers and resins.
- Coatings
Development - Low VOC content coatings including water born,
higher solids, chrome free and heavy metal free coatings,
powder and radiation cure. Low temperatures cure coatings
for use over metallic and plastic substrates. Ultra durable
compositions for coil and automotive applications. Thin
film, conventional and thick film corrosion resistant primers.
- Market
Applications - Aerospace, Appliance, Automotive OEM, Automotive
Refinish, Coil coatings (appliance, building, truck trailer,
thin film, industrial), Packaging and traffic marking coatings.
- Problem
Solving/Analysis - Failure mode analysis, coating selection
for optimum performance, coatings for warranted applications,
various ASTM, AAMA test methods.
Innovation - Several innovative products developed
with multimillion dollar sales. Three R&D 100 awards for innovative
products in global competition. Multiple patents granted per
the attached partial list:
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PATENT
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Title
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R.J.Lewarchik
• Inventor/Coinventor
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| 1. |
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6,602,552 |
Low
temperature cure coating composition and method therefore |
| 2. |
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6,485,781 |
Metal
roofing shingle stock and method for making it |
| 3. |
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5,972,471 |
Decorative
coating with textured pattern |
| 4. |
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5,858,506 |
Decorative
coating with textured pattern |
| 5. |
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5,852,162 |
Low
molecular weight hydroxy functional polyesters for coatings
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| 6. |
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5,840,827 |
Low
molecular weight hydroxy functional polyesters for coatings
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| 7. |
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5,688,598 |
Non-blistering
thick film coating compositions and method for providing non-blistering
thick film coatings on metal surfaces |
| 8. |
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5,623,027 |
Silicone-modified
aliphatic polyester |
| 9. |
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5,516,549 |
Method
of applying a striated coating |
| 10. |
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5,484,842 |
UV-stable,
water-borne polyester compositions |
| 11. |
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5,342,871 |
Clear
hydrophilic coating for heat exchanger fins |
| 12. |
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5,340,870 |
Fast
dry waterborne traffic marking paint |
| 13. |
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5,262,494 |
Hard,
flexible, and durable architectural coating |
| 14. |
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5,211,989 |
Clear
hydrophilic coating for heat exchanger fins |
| 15. |
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5,185,403 |
Thermosetting
acrylic polymers and coating compositions containing said acrylic
polymers and fluorocarbon resins |
| 16. |
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4,720,403 |
Anticorrosive
coating compositions |
| 17. |
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4,560,728 |
Thermally
cured topcoats on vacuum deposited metal |
| 18. |
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4,532,021 |
Adherent
ultraviolet cured coatings |
| 19. |
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4,530,977 |
Low
temperature-curing polyester urethane systems |
| 20. |
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4,526,939 |
Thermosetting
coating compositions for the sealing of fiber reinforced plastics
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| 21. |
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4,518,746 |
Polyester
oligomer and high solids thermosetting coatings |
| 22. |
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4,504,374 |
Ultraviolet
cured coating method to provide stone chip resistance |
| 23. |
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4,481,093 |
Ultraviolet
curable basecoats for vacuum metallization |
| 24. |
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4,416,750 |
Ultraviolet
curable basecoats for vacuum metallization |
| 25. |
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4,317,894 |
Low
temperature cure coating compositions |
| 26. |
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4,314,918 |
Coating
compositions containing organic alcoholic reactive diluents
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| 27. |
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4,252,935 |
Esters
of diglycidyl polyethers of hydrogenated phenols and coating
compositions containing same |
| 28. |
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4,228,294 |
Esters
of imidazolidinedione-based diepoxides and coating compositions
containing same |
| 29. |
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4,221,891 |
Esters
of imidazolidinedione-based triepoxides and coating compositions
containing same |
| 30. |
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4,218,355 |
Low
organic solvent-containing polyester coating compositions |
| 31. |
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4,206,104 |
N,N-'-Dihydroxyalkyl
ester substituted imidazolidinediones and coating compositions
containing same |
| 32. |
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4,187,380 |
Esters
of imidazolidinedione-based triepoxides |
| 33. |
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4,174,337 |
Hydroxy-functional
esters of substituted imidazolidinediones and compositions containing
same |
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References
- Available upon request
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