Important Update!

July 16, 2025

Dear valued customer,

As you may or may not know, the acquisition of Heubach’s pigments business unit by Sudarshan was recently finalized. We are pleased to announce that Reliant Aluminum Products LLC will continue to be the exclusive North America distributor for Sudarshan anodizing chemistries. Sudarshan and Reliant are now starting to implement the new Sudarshan brand on our packaging, labels, and related documents.

Rest assured that the products and their performance characteristics have not changed and do not vary from the old branding to the new branding, The products are manufactured at the same facility with the same equipment and are identical in composition and formulation, irrespective of the package branding. Since the rebranding process will take some time to be completed, you may still receive packaging labelled with the previous “Heubach” brand.

The legacy-Heubach product brands – Anodal, Sanodal, Sanodye, and Sanodure will remain unchanged at this time. Likewise, this change in company branding does not affect the individual product names or codes.

The first phase of the package rebranding will affect products manufactured at the European facilities. The labeling of the packaging and corresponding documents with the new company name “Sudarshan” will begin shipping in the coming months.

Please share this information with all parties within your organization that this name change might affect. Should you have any questions, please reach out to your Reliant technical sales representative.


Yours sincerely,
Chris Parker
President
Reliant Aluminum Products LLC

Jack Bucchi Appointed Senior Technical Sales Rep

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Reliant Aluminum Products is pleased to announce the appointment of Jack Bucchi as Senior Technical Sales Representative serving anodizing customers in the northeast U.S.

Mr. Bucchi has 18 years of experience in manufacturing industries such as textiles (Heminway & Bartlett Mfg.) and medical devices (American Cyanamid). He has held various positions including Research Assistant, Dye House Supervisor, Lab Manager, Production Supervisor and Production Manager.

He is a graduate of University of Connecticut where he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Biology and Chemistry.

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AAC and Reliant at World Congress in Italy

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The anodizing industry and AAC were well represented earlier this month in Italy at the Aluminium Two Thousand 8th World Congress. The Council conducted the Anodizing Essentials Workshop in conjunction with the Congress in Milan, Italy. The Workshop was a great success with 21 registrants attending the Level 1 course in AAC’s School for Anodizers.

There was so much interest in the topics and the program was so popular that the session lasted well past the scheduled end time. “We were supposed to end at 5:00 p.m. but registrants stayed until 6:45 p.m. talking with the instructors during the Q&A session,” said Suzanne Spohr who traveled to the conference to offer support to the volunteer speakers.

The Council wishes to thank the AAC members who volunteered their time and expertise to help support the Council’s educational program. Speakers included Jude Runge, CompCote International, Inc.; Frank Munk, Munk GmbH; Mary Oakley, Potash Corp.; and Reliant’s Vice President – Technical Services Mark Jozefowicz.

Thanks also to additional speakers, including Dr. Arthur Brace; Enzo Dell’Orto, Officine Meccaniche San Georgio SpA; and Federico Vincenzi, Italtecno.

In addition, two AAC members received awards at the 8th World Congress. Jude Runge won First Place for Best Paper and Mary Oakley received Second Place Best Paper. Congratulations! The Aluminum Anodizers Council and the anodizing industry were well represented at Aluminium 2000.

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