(St. Paul, MN – July 21, 2025) Erik Levy, IP Corporation’s Executive Vice President, today announced the 2025 recipients of the Scholars Award sponsored by IP Corporation in affiliation with the American Composites Manufacturers Association (ACMA) and the International Cast Polymer Association (ICPA).
The six well-deserving high school graduates and their company affiliations are: Trentity Martin, OH (Teijin Automotive); Emma Pridemore, IN (Superior) Logan Brownell, OR (Miles Fiberglass); Delmar Wade, OH (Creative Composites); Michael Watson, OR (Orenco Systems); and Alyssa Lovins, IN (Superior). This year we provided each winner an award of $3,500 to be used towards their studies at a four-year college or university of their choice.
This is the twenty-fifth year IP Corporation has awarded the scholarships. “Each year, we are inspired by the remarkable talent and drive of our applicants. Their academic achievements, leadership in extracurriculars, and deep commitment to service reflect a generation poised to make meaningful impact.” said Erik Levy.
To be eligible for a Scholars Award, the applicant’s parents, legal guardian, or the student must be employed by an ACMA or ICPA member company and the student must be planning to attend an accredited four-year college or university. The selection of the Scholars Award winners is based on the individual’s personal merit and background, with an emphasis on excellence in academic, financial need and extracurricular activities. The scholarships must be used for tuition and/or required books, supplies and equipment.
Interplastic has excellent experience and success with CIPP resins. These filled and unfilled isophthalic and vinyl esters are each presented with brief, technical information and a feature/benefit statement
A an easy-to read 36 x 24-inch poster that describes common gel coat problems and their solutions.
Interplastic has been supplying vacuum infusion resins since the 1980’s.
Our most popular product line. This family of bonding compounds has a proven track record for general purpose adhesion – specifically in the marine industry as a high performance, reliable, weight-reducing, and easy to work with compound.
Silmar® casting resins are one of the best examples of Interplastic’s perfect match to customer’s processes. We offer specially designed resins that match your production requirements, while delivering superior results.
Whether you’re a municipal professional, an engineer or a CIPP contractor, Interplastic is dedicated to providing you with innovative solutions, a broad product line and support from expert field specialists. Expect consistent, competitively priced, and reliable resins to repair partially or fully deteriorated storm sewer, sewer, culvert and industrial pipes. With more than 40 years of experience with the polyesters and vinyl esters used in cured-in-place pipe applications, you will see how we are dedicated to providing all our customers with smooth installations and years of worry-free performance.
Our corrosion team has developed a series of tough resins for demanding applications. Be it a a stack liner, chemical processing equipment or an entire waste water treatment plant, Interplastic has the right resin for you.
CoREZYN brand corrosion and fire retardant resins offer a broad range of product types to meet every need.
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CoREZYN brand marine resins are offered in a wide range of gel and cure time offerings to meet every need.
CoREZYN brand open mold/laminating resins are offered in a wide range of gel and cure time offerings for all types of open mold and laminating applications.
Polymer concrete is part of group of concretes that use polymers to supplement or replace cement as a binder. Parking lots, bridges, ramps, loading docks, driveways, post anchors and sub-floors would be some common applications.
Our pultrusion lab and highly capable technical staff are available to develop new formulas or apply an existing formula to give you predictable results. The right resin helps ensure a smooth process and a resulting product that meets your specifications. That’s why we’ve formulated a broad range of resins specifically for the pultrusion market.
Pool and Spa are typically a combination of different products. We first recommend a vinyl ester resin coat and follow that with our DCPD laminating resin COR61-AA-131. To figure out the best products for your needs visit our vinyl ester pool/spa page 
Our pool & spa resins provide excellent adhesion to acrylic resins, ease of use and superb water resistance. They are available in multiple gel times.
Resin Transfer Molding is a closed mold process which utilizes orthophthalic and isophthalic polyester and vinyl ester resins. RTM applications include: automobile panels, sports car bodies, truck body and recreational vehicle components, medical equipment, storage tanks, and marine parts, windmill blades and many more.
CoREZYN brand sanitary ware/bath resins are designed for filled applications in a variety of gel and cure times to meet every need.
Camper and truck top manufacturing requires excellent surface characteristics and physical properties. Our sheet molding compounds and bulk molding compound resins can be used with a filled or non filled open molding technique to manufacture various truck components. We manufacture the best in fatigue and freeze/thaw-resistant panel resins for recreational vehicle sidewalls and panel resins for tractor-trailer liners and exterior walls as well.
Silmar brand resins have been the product of choice to the solid surface industry for over 40 years. Our casting labs developed cutting edge polymer technology in collaboration with industry leaders, fine tune our products to meet the exacting demands of surfacing products. Interplastics’ products are typified by consistent color and innovative promoter technology, that handle a multitude of fillers and additives while still delivering the performance features you need.
Silmar brand and CoREZYN brand specialty products are offered in many different variations for a variety of market and product applications including; Acylic Bonding, Bowling Ball, Deburring Chips, Filament Winding, Flexible, Grating, Rotational Molding, Tooling and Low Profile, Low Shrink Additives.
Our series of infusion and pultrusion resins are ideal for infusing even 40 foot or longer bridge pilings or pultruding FRP rebar. These resins are customized for each application.
Our specialty products have been widely accepted for their performance, durability, and application properties. Specialty gel coats are used in the marine, transportation, and sanitary markets.
Our economical, general purpose, MACT compliant gel coats can be found on many different types of composite parts in the sanitary ware market ranging from fiberglass bathtubs, shower units, and wall surrounds to the interior walls of utility vehicles. These gel coats are also used in external applications such as recreation vehicles, utility boxes, cooling towers, and many others. 
The sprayable polyester backup coatings are designed to function as a print. They eliminate heat lines and fiber print defects in fiberglass parts, provides high resistance to impact, cracking and elevated temperatures. These products are not designed to provide additional resistance to water and should not be used below the waterline.
Polyester tooling gel coats are designed specifically for manufacturing fiberglass tools and not intended for exterior application. They offer hard, durable, scratch resistant surface with high gloss.
Our sanding primer gel coats have excellent paint compatibility. We offer conductive primers for electrostatic painting process as well. Sanding primers are ideal for any fiberglass composite application requiring a prepared surface prior to finishing.
Surface coats are post applied to composite (FRP) and are formulated with special additives resulting in excellent surface cure. These products produce low gloss, tough, durable surface finish resistant to water spotting and are used in applications ranging from bilg and deck coatings in the marine industry to the exterior post applied coating on chemical storage tanks. Surface coats are available in various custom colors for interior and exterior applications.
Silmar® brand SIL66 resins are the most widely used resin for surfboard manufacturing and hand laminating in the industry. In fact, they are sold throughout the world. These resins feature low color (almost water clear) and excellent UV-resistance (UV-stabilized). They have remarkable stability for consistent viscosity and excellent wet out and gel times. All contain Silmar’s proprietary promoter package designed for surfboard production and room temperature cure.
The superior transparency and consistency of our Silmar clear gel coats brings out the best in cultured marble and onyx spas, sinks, and countertops. Our extremely durable and MACT-compliant Silmar clear gel coats are top performers in clarity and color.
These resins are generally unique to each application. Please contact us to develop a resin to meet your needs.
Our vinyl ester barrier coats have a proven track record for the elimination of osmotic blisters below the waterline in marine applications. The additional benefits of these products are improved cosmetics and crack resistance. 
Camper and truck top manufacturing requires excellent surface characteristics and physical properties. Our sheet molding compounds and bulk molding compound resins can be used with a filled or non filled open molding technique to manufacture various truck components. We manufacture the best in fatigue and freeze/thaw-resistant panel resins for recreational vehicle sidewalls and panel resins for tractor-trailer liners and exterior walls as well.
Our R&D team has developed hand lay up, spray up and infusion resins to meet the demanding needs of the transportation market. Be it a tough infusion resin capable of the demands of public transportation or the need for flame retardant, low smoke applications. Our team has or can develop the right resin for you.
Camper and truck top manufacturing requires excellent surface characteristics and physical properties. Our sheet molding compounds and bulk molding compound resins can be used with a filled or non filled open molding technique to manufacture various truck components. We manufacture the best in fatigue and freeze/thaw-resistant panel resins for recreational vehicle sidewalls and panel resins for tractor-trailer liners and exterior walls as well.
Interplastic bonding compounds are formulated to be hand or machine mixed and applied. This COR-Grip bonding guide with walk you through best practices and set-ups.
Lists CoREZYN resin product offerings compared to other manufacturers. Describes the performance characteristics of the CoREZYN products.
