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8 JUNE 2017 — PFonline.com Gloria Ender Receives Distinguished Alumni Award Diamond Vogel Plans Expansion for Peridium Powder Iowa-based powder coating supplier Diamond Vogel is in the midst of a five-year, $30 million expansion plan that includes growing the manufacturing facility for its Peridium Powder Coat- ings production plant. The company broke ground last year on a 91,000-square-foot addition to its Orange City, Iowa, powder coating plant that will more than double its current size. Company officials say the expansion will give them the capa- bility to add 15 production lines on top of the 10 existing lines by mid-2018, and hire an additional 25 employees to staff the lines. For the entire five-year plan, as many as 50 employees will be added to the production facility. Diamond Vogel has a long history in industrial coatings. They began in Friesland, Holland, where Andrew Vogel worked in his father's paint shop applying finishes to the homes and carriages of Dutch farmers. In 1913, the Vogel family immigrated to the U.S. where 13 years later the Vogel Paint and Wax Company began. Gloria Ender, owner of Freedom Finishing in Benton Harbor, Michigan, received the Clarence Beckwith Distinguished Alumni Award at the Lake Michigan College commencements. She and her husband, Erik, started powder coating in 1988 and moved to their current 60,000-square-foot location in 1992, where they added electrocoating in 2001. Overall, the company has seven manufacturing facilities and 70 service facilities, where they sell liquid coatings to architectural markets and consumers, too. Peridium Powder coating technologies include TGIC polyes- ter, hybrid, urethane and epoxy. For information, visit diamondvogel.com. BASF's 2017 Science Competition Opens BASF kicked off its third annual North American science competi- tion, which focuses on creating coating finishes on carbon fiber composites. OEMs seek to use lightweight panels to improve fuel economy. However, coating carbon fiber composites is challenging, BASF says, due to the thermal expansion difference between the resin and fiber. Through the competition, BASF hopes to encourage Axalta Opens Americas Technology Center Axalta Coating Systems opened its Americas Technology Center (ATC) located at its Mount Clemens, Michigan, manufacturing and research complex. The ATC will provide product research and development resources for the company. Visit short.PFonline.com/top_shops . John and Laura Holcomb TOP SHOPS SPOTLIGHT Alumni-Guard Alumi-Guard makes and sells powder coated aluminum fences and accessories. Bill Woodard began Alumi-Guard in early 2000. Chip Howison is the vice president, John Holcomb is the plant manager and Laura Holcomb is the materials manager. the development of ideas that address this challenge. The competi- tion is open to teams consisting of two to four Ph.D. students and researchers in the U.S. and Canada (excluding Quebec). Finalists will receive cash awards and the opportunity to present their proof- of-concept to BASF executives in August at the BASF North Ameri- can Automotive Coatings headquarters in Southfield, Michigan. NEWS