February 2021 Update

February 2021 Update


February 11, 2021

The National Steel Painting Contractors Association (NSPCA) provides a platform to help IUPAT contractors engaged in structural steel painting and industrial coatings preserve and grow market share. Our board of directors and the NSPCA team have been hard at work on initiatives for 2021. We are committed to our members’ success. Please email us with specific questions or concerns.

Kevin LaRue | Executive Director
larue@nspcassociation.org

Henry Arato | Director of Quality Management Resources
arato@nspcassociation.org

Download the NSPCA Overview Brochure


Association for Materials Protection and Performance Formed

The Association for Materials Protection and Performance (AMPP) was formed by a merger between Houston-based NACE International, The Corrosion Society, and Pittsburgh-based SSPC: The Society for Protective Coatings. Launched in January 2021, AMPP was formed to create a unified voice for the corrosion control and protective coatings industries.

NSPCA Executive Director Kevin LaRue has been appointed Vice Chair of the Accreditation Program Committee that will help provide guidance over all QP programs and the QP sub-committees currently being established.

Read the news release.


NSPCA Welcomes Arato

Henry Arato joined NSPCA as Director of Quality Management Resources. Henry will assist NSPCA contractors with certification issues and challenges, inform NSPCA contractors of certification revisions that impact their business, and when requested, will assist NSPCA members with certification audit preparation and mitigation of findings. Henry will work with interested contractors in challenged markets such as marine, tank, and power. He will use his extensive quality management background to serve as a technical resource, to intercede in support of NSPCA contractors in jurisdictional disputes, and to promote the growth of NSPCA across North America to those contractors signatory to the IUPAT.

Henry built a career as a quality assurance expert. Most recently, he was Program Manager of the Painting Contractor Certification Program for the Society for Protective Coatings (SSPC). Prior to that, he spent 38 years with the U.S. Navy, ultimately serving as waterfront operations manager. Henry is based in Fernandina Beach, Florida.

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