• Written on 23.05.2011 - Personnel
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IISRP elects new President

Antonio Protopapa, Commercial Director for Polimeri Europa, was elected President International of the International Institute of Synthetic Rubber Producers (IISRP) and President to the European Section for the year 2011 – 2012. He succeeds Chan-koo Park, Chairman and CEO of Kumho Petrochemical, who now becomes the Past-President International.

Antonio Protopapa

Antonio Protopapa

Protopapa has been with the Eni Group, the parent company of Polimeri Europa, since 1986. In 2001, he was appointed as Chairman and Marketing Manager for the Hungarian Affiliate Dunastyr. In 2007 he was named as Global Sales Manager for all polymers.

In addition to Protopapa, the other twelve members elected to the Institute Executive Committee for the year 2011 – 2012 are:

Far East Section: Koichi Kawasaki of JSR, President and Wang Yuqing of Sinopec, Vice President.

European Section: Ignacio Marco of Dynasol, Vice President and Abraham Brink of Karbochem, Standing Member.

Americas Section: Ken Hertl of Goodyear Chemical, President, John Lyon of ExxonMobil, Vice President and Tim Gorman of ISP Elastomers, Standing Member.

Continuing to serve on the Executive Committee are Chan-koo Park of KKPC, Past-President International, Wei-Hua Tu of TSRC as Treasurer, and James L. McGraw, IISRP’s Managing Director & CEO, Assistant Treasurer and Secretary.


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