Pieter de Lange was an R&D manager at powder coating manufacturer Teodur (now DuPont Teodur) in Breda, the Netherlands. He graduated in chemistry and chemical techology at the Technical University of Delft and joined the paint industry in 1952. Drawing on his extensive experience working on the research and development of various types of wet and powder paints, in 1961, he developed one of the first commercially available, electrostatically applied, thermosetting epoxy powder coatings.
Mr. de Lange became widely known as a powder coating pioneer and expert in Europe but was less well known here in the United States.