ABOUT

MISSION STATEMENT

Legislative & Regulatory

Our primary role is to serve as ally and advocate for the coatings industry on legislative, regulatory and judicial issues at the Federal, State and local levels.


Image Enhancement

Our purpose is to educate legislators, regulators, media, environmentalists and the public in an effort to foster the notion that paint benefits society and that those who make and sell it contribute to the quality of life.


Membership

It is our goal to attract and retain members in the Association by providing education, networking and services that allow our members to obtain a competitive edge.


Association Goal

To truly represent the industry in the Chicagoland area and to do those things that are for the good of the industry and of the public, here and throughout the nation.

HISTORY

Following the Chicago fire in 1871, the rebuilding of the city sparked the paint industry. Some years later, a handful of paint manufacturers and dealers organized the Chicago Paint, Oil and Varnish Club, known now as the Chicago Paint & Coatings Association.


In 1949, a joint committee of the Chicago Society for Paint Technology and the Chicago Paint & Coatings Association set up a special fellowship program to promote paint technology education.


The labeling guidelines proposed by the industry in the 1950's were subsequently adopted "practically verbatim" by the Federal Consumer Product Safety Commission.


As early as 1963, the industry was doing serious research into the safe handling of potentially hazardous chemicals. This is one of the reasons today's paint plants are among the most environmentally safe production facilities of any kind in America.


Today, our membership consists of nearly 100 companies who are committed to promoting and preserving the ideals to which the association has been dedicated since February 25, 1887.

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