Speaker Group: 2026 TechFocus Presentations.

Business and marketing leader with 20+ years’ experience driving profitable growth in coatings and specialty materials across global, highly regulated markets. Currently Lead – Liquid Systems at PCBL, with prior roles as Global Marketing Director Coatings at Orion, Global Marketing Manager Coatings at Merck, and senior technical and marketing positions at Clariant. Proven track record… Read more »

Dr. Ulf Stalmach studied chemistry in Mainz, Germany, earning his Ph.D. in 1997. After a postdoctoral period in Groningen, NL, he started his coatings career in 2000, holding several positions in R&D, application engineering and procurement controlling. He joined ORONTEC GmbH & Co. KG in 2019, taking care of projects for process optimization and –automation… Read more »

Paul joined FP-Pigments Oy in 2010, as their Group Technical Director with a global responsibility for introducing their new patented Opacity Pigment to the Coatings and Plastics markets. A Graduate in Chemistry from the University of Teesside and a Fellow in the Technology of Surface Coatings, in his current role Paul is responsible for providing… Read more »

After a degree in Chemistry from Nottingham University, Andy started work making polymers and subsequently industrial coatings for ICI in Birmingham in 1984. In 1991 he stepped into raw materials when he moved to SCM Chemicals (latterly Millennium Chemicals and now Cristal/Tronox) as a Technical Service Manager. There followed a 17 year career in TiO2,… Read more »