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David Tappa Receives NAPIM’s Technical Associate Member Award

BASF’s senior application technology manager, Printing & Packaging – Resins, North America joined after his freshman year in college and has never looked back.

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By: DAVID SAVASTANO

Contributing Editor, Coatings World and Ink World

For David Tappa, joining the resin industry after his freshman year in college in 2003 has proved to be the start of a special career which has resulted in his receiving the 2024 Technical Associate Member (TAM) Service Award from NAPIM. “I started as an intern at Johnson Polymer, which was acquired by BASF, after my freshman year at Carthage College and have never looked back,” said Tappa, who is senior application technology manager, Printing & Packaging – Resins, North America for BASF. ...

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