Ian Sellars, the owner and managing director of Elcometer, and one of the founders of the modern coating inspection industry, passed away on April 10. He was 70. Mr. Sellars' earliest memory of the coatings industry was at the age of 9, watching his father make the first tool used in the manufacture of the very first gauge that bore this famous company name, the Elcometer 101. He began working alongside his father in 1958, where his first job was assembling the valves into the Elcometer 103 mkl "Elcotector" coating thickness gauge. In 1962, upon the death of his father, Sellars took control of Elcometer at the age of 23. For nearly 50 years, he steered the family business from a small 370 sq. ft operation employing seven people, into a global manufacturer and supplier of inspection equipment for the coatings and concrete industries that today employs more than 200 staff member in six offices and boasts a comprehensive global network of 150-plus distributors.
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