CCAI Recognizes 2022 Award Recipients
The Chemical Coaters Association International awarded the CCAI Chapter Users and Suppliers of the Year, as well as the 2022 James F. & David J. Wright Lifetime Achievement Award.
Bill Oney accepts the lifetime achievement award. Photo Credit: CCAI
During the 2022 Chemical Coaters Association International (CCAI) Annual Meeting in Avon, Colorado, the organization held its annual awards ceremony to recognize the CCAI Chapter Users and Suppliers of the Year and announces the 2022 James F. & David J. Wright Lifetime Achievement Award recipient.
The prestigious James F. & David J. Wright Lifetime Achievement Award is CCAI’s highest honor and is awarded to deserving members of the association that have dedicated years of service to CCAI and the industrial finishing industry. This year, the recipient was Bill Oney, who retired from Therma-Tron-X Inc. (Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin) in October 2021. Oney has been a CCAI member for the past 23 years, and he is an active member of the Wisconsin Chapter and has served as its president. Bill was a contributor to CCAI’s Powder Coating and System Design training manuals and shared his expertise at many technical and educational events throughout the years. Oney has served on the CCAI National Board for 13 years, including every role on the CCAI Executive Committee. His passion and caring during his term has helped CCAI grow and offer many of the initiatives currently in place. Oney says, "I am humbled and very grateful to be recognized alongside a long list of great people who have received this prestigious award. I knew Dave Wright personally and worked with him for many years and to be given this award is an absolute honor. I am extremely thankful for our family of members within CCAI, for everything that CCAI stands for, and all that it has achieved!”
CCAI also honored its Chapter User and Supplier of the Year recipients at the awards ceremony. Each year chapters identify a user and supplier member for their service and dedication to their respective chapter.
The 2022 Chapter Award winners are:
- Twin Cities Chapter – Bob Bonsall, Nordic Ware Inc. (Minneapolis, Minnesota) and Joel Lynch, Diamond Vogel Inc. (Orange City, Iowa)
- West Michigan Chapter – Terre Bennett, DeWys Manufacturing (Marne, Michigan) and Tom Farrington, Sherwin-Williams Company (Cleveland, Ohio)
- Wisconsin Chapter – Matt Diker, Mercury Marine (Fond du Lac, Wisconsin)
