During the Honors Luncheon of its 120th Annual Meeting in Pittsburgh, the National Paint & Coatings Association (NPCA) presented Charles E. Bennett, CEO of Cook Composites and Polymers, with the George Baugh Heckel Award, the association’s highest honor.


PITTSBURGH - During the Honors Luncheon of its 120th Annual Meeting in Pittsburgh, the National Paint & Coatings Association (NPCA) presented Charles E. Bennett, CEO of Cook Composites and Polymers, with the George Baugh Heckel Award, the association’s highest honor.

Bennett has spent much of his life working in the industry, beginning in 1979 with a position at Guardsman Products. He held various positions at Guardsman and was CEO and President upon his departure in 1996. At that time, he founded Polymer Products Inc., a company that manufactured coatings resins. Two years later, he sold the company and took his current position of CEO at Cook Composites and Polymers in Kansas City.

His involvement with NPCA has included positions on the Membership Committee, Coatings Care Committee, Budget and Finance Committee, Chairman of the Industrial Coatings Committee and more than 10 years on NPCA’s Board of Directors.