By SEMA News Editors
Bolt Lock, Partner Companies Expand 'Unlocked Passport' Prize Giveaway at 2024 SEMA Show
BOLT Lock, GEN-Y Hitch, Hellwig Products, EGR USA, Pop & Lock and Bubba Rope are again offering the UNLOCKED PASSPORT prize giveaway at this year's SEMA Show, November 5-8, at the Las Vegas Convention Center.
The exhibitors are giving Show attendees a chance at winning prizes from a list of giveaways being supplied by the participating manufacturers.
Prizes include a BOLT Lock prize pack that includes a receiver lock, padlock, cable lock, trailer coupler lock, coupler pin lock and BOLT Lock swag items; a MEGA DUTY hitch from GEN-Y Hitch; a manual Rolltrac bed cover worth $2,299 or a gift card in an equivalent amount from EGR; a $500 gift certificate, T-shirt and hat from Hellwig Products; a $250 gift certificate along with Pop & Lock swag items courtesy of Pop & Lock; two BubbaGear truck recovery kits from Bubba Rope. Booth numbers for the participating companies are:
- BOLT Lock--58185
- GEN-Y Hitch--59027
- EGR USA--58093
- Hellwig Products--58043
- Pop & Lock--56027
- Bubba Rope--60069
Each participating exhibitor will have special passports to hand out to show attendees that visit the participating booths. The passport will be signed off at each of the six booths. When complete, contest participants will come to the BOLT Lock booth to draw a key from a tool box filled with more than 400 keys. There will be six BOLT padlocks displayed and they can test the key on each padlock to see if it can open one.
If they can open a padlock, they can win one of the prizes provided by each company. There will be one winner per company.
For more information, visit boltlock.com.
PPG Announces Kevin Braun as Senior VP of Operations
PPG has announced that Kevin Braun has been named senior vice president of operations, effective October 1.
Braun succeeds Ram Vadlamannati, who is retiring after 25 years with the company. Braun, who previously served as senior vice president of the industrial coatings segment, will continue to report to Tim Knavish, PPG chairman and CEO, and serve on PPG's operating committee.
In his new role, Braun will lead the operations organization that includes PPG's supply chain, operational excellence, manufacturing operations, procurement and environment, health and safety functions. He will also maintain executive oversight accountability for packaging coatings and specialty coatings and materials. The automotive OEM and industrial coatings businesses, which remain part of the industrial coatings segment, will transition to report directly to Knavish.
Braun began his career at PPG in 1991 as a production engineer at the Delaware, Ohio, coatings manufacturing facility. In 2023, he was named senior vice president of the industrial coatings segment.
For more information, visit ppg.com.
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