PPG'S Lawton & Pollock inducted into Collegium

PPG'S Lawton & Pollock inducted into Collegium

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North Carolina-based scientist Ernest L. Lawton and retired executive E. Kears Pollock were recently inducted into PPG Industries' PPG Collegium,recognising their career contributions to product and process development.

The PPG Collegium has 27 lifetime members with these additions. Biennial elections conclude a nominating process.

Ernest Lawton is staff scientist at PPG's Lexington, NC, fiberglass science and technology center. He joined the company in 1981 as a fiberglass research associate, and has authored or co-authored 18 US patents.

He invented a coating used on a wide range of fiberglass yarns as well as fiberglass reinforcements for copper and fiber optic cables, and has led development of a resin compatible binder for new fiberglass yarns that enhance production of electronic circuit boards. He introduced statistical analysis to improve fiberglass production and performance, and co-invented coatings application technology to protect reflective metallic coatings on flat glass and windshields.

E. Kears Pollock retired in April as executive vice president. He joined PPG in 1966 as a glass research engineer, held patent law posts, was glass research and development director, and held automotive coatings management assignments before heading all of PPG's coatings businesses. He has four patents in computer-aided artificial intelligence and glass processing

He was responsible for creating a strong, flat, glass process patent portfolio, established discipline in developing original equipment products,championed development of PPG's pioneering automotive powder clear coat as well as the company's high-solids waterborne base coats that became North America's leading automotive colour coatings, and demonstrated "exceptional ability"to understand business implications of technology and leverage it for commercial success.