Polyurethanes
Huntsman appoints new independent Board member

Huntsman has appointed Dr. Patrick Harker, 51, as a new independent Director to its Board of Directors. Harker has been President of the University of ...

Thermoplastic Elastomers
Change of Managing Directors in the Feddersen Group

Volker Scheel and Andreas Stuber have additionally been appointed as Managing Directors of Norddeutsche Ueberseegesellschaft in Hamburg mbH and of Transeurasia ...

Polyurethanes
Recticel appoints new CEO

Effective 1 April 2010, Olivier Chapelle, 45, will take over responsibility as new Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Recticel.

Polyurethanes
New Vice President at Dow Polyurethanes

Dow Chemical has appointed Guillermo Novo Vice President of Dow Polyurethanes, a global business group that includes the propylene oxide, propylene glycol, ...

Polyurethanes
Change in leadership at Rühl Puromer

After celebrating his 60th birthday on 31 December 2009 Alfred Brombacher, Managing Director of Rühl Puromer GmbH, has gone into retirement.

Polyurethanes
Ralf Knief continues as General Manager at H&S

Ralf Knief, 44, was appointed as General Manager for Sales at H&S Anlagentechnik GmbH, Germany, on adding to the management team of the company alongside the ...

Thermoplastic Elastomers
IISRP to bestow honour on industry leaders

The International Institute of Synthetic Rubber Producers, Inc. (IISRP) will honour two of its outstanding leaders at its next AGM in Dubai, UAE, in April 2010.

Thermoplastic Elastomers
ExxonMobil appoints new global automotive Sales Manager

Thierry de Barneville was recently appointed as ExxonMobil Chemical’s new global polyolefins automotive Sales Manager, located in Paris, France.

Thermoplastic Elastomers
Eliokem appoints new CEO

Patrice Barthelmes, 52, has been appointed CEO of Eliokem. Since 1999, Barthelmes served as Vice President (VP) and Director for the Packaging & Building ...

Thermoplastic Elastomers
Personnel changes at Dow Automotive

Steve Henderson has been appointed President of Dow Auto­motive, replacing Peter Sykes who assumed the role of President Greater China for Dow.

Rubber Polyurethanes
New Chairman of the Board of Dow Deutschland

Ralf Brinkmann has been named President of Dow Germany and Chairman of the Board of Dow Deutschland Inc. He succeeds Markus Wildi. In addition, Brinkmann is ...

Rubber
New Sales Director at Unimatec Chemicals Europe

Effective 1 March 2010, Helmut Waibel was appointed Sales Director of Unimatec Chemicals Europe at its European headquarters in Weinheim, Germany.

Rubber Thermoplastic Elastomers
AMAP names Kendrick „Person of the Year 2010“

Kraton announced that Jeanne Kendrick, Regional Business Manager for North American Paving and Roofing, was named "2010 Person of the Year," by the Association ...

Thermoplastic Elastomers
Sewell and Karlsson join VTC's European Technical Sales Team

VTC TPE Group has announced the appointment of two new members to its European technical sales team.