Keith Moody

Keith M. Moody

Biography

Keith M. Moody is a consultant in the chemical and coatings industry. Keith’s focus is designing and delivering training on polymers, solvents, inks and coating formulations. He retired at the end of 2017 after working 30 years at Eastman Chemical Company in Kingsport TN.

The expert received his BS in Chemistry from Kentucky Wesleyan College in 1976 and his MS in Polymer Chemistry from the University of Cincinnati in 1987. He has worked in the coatings industry since 1978. He has taught classes at the University of Louisville in Coating Science and is the author of both patents and technical articles on waterborne coatings. Keith has worked in resin production, polymer development, and emulsion research with BASF, Reliance Universal and Celanese before coming to Eastman in 1988.

At Eastman Chemical Company, he retired as Senior Technical Service Associate in the Coatings Technical Service Lab. At Eastman, he also worked in technical service for fibers, polymer additives and plasticizers. He worked in a variety of research, development and sales positions at Eastman. He has held leadership positions as Vice President R+D Americas for Lawter International and R+D Technical Manager-Coatings Resins for McWhorter Technologies when both were subsidiaries of Eastman Chemical Company.

For the last several years, he has been the lead technical service representative for solvents. He has presented seminars on solvent technology to research groups at Akzo, Sherwin-Williams, BASF, PPG and many other coating manufacturers and chemical distributors.

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