NWI Times reported that anew president has been named at Gary based Chemcoaters. It hired Mr Connor McMenamin, who most recently headed up Tata Steel’s operations in Mexico. He also worked in sales and account management for India based multinational steelmaker. A University of Illinois alumnus, McManamin is fluent in Spanish, Portuguese, Arabic and French. In his new role, he’s been charged with providing strategic leadership to establish long-term goals and strategies while monitoring the company’s ongoing performance.
Founded in 2001, Chemcoaters operates an 80,000-square-foot facility in downtown Gary, where it runs a coil processing line and develops products like InterCoat ChemGuard that lengthen the life of steel products. The company operates a 72-inch-wide line that can handle up to 72,000 pound coils ranging in thickness from 0.008 inches to 0.125 inches, which it bills as “one of the largest capacity lines in the world.”
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