Cognis, Dow Chemical, P&G Execs Join SDA Board of Directors.

WASHINGTON -- Senior executives from Cognis Corporation, Dow Chemical, and Procter & Gamble have joined the Board of Directors of The Soap and Detergent Association, the U.S. trade association of the cleaning product and oleochemical industries.

The new Directors - elected by the Board at its meeting in Washington, D.C. - are:

--Mark Leonard, Vice President, Care Chemicals, Cognis Corporation (www.na.cognis.com)

--Pam Butcher, Business Vice President, Specialty Chemicals, The Dow Chemical Company (www.dow.com)

--Dimitri Panayotopoulos, Group President, Global Fabric Care, The Procter & Gamble Company (www.pg.com)

The new Board members are succeeding colleagues from their companies who recently left the SDA Board: Michael Miller (Cognis), Julie Fasone Holder (Dow Chemical), and Robert McDonald (P&G).

"The strength of our Board of Directors continues to be the diverse representation of top executives from cleaning product industry formulators, ingredient suppliers, and oleochemical producers," said Ernie Rosenberg, SDA President and CEO. "That's why SDA has been able to effectively represent these industries since 1926."

The SDA Board is chaired by Stanley W. Silverman, President and CEO of PQ Corporation (www.pq.com). Alan W. Jope, COO, Unilever Home and Personal Care, (www.unilever.com), serves as Board Vice Chair.

The Soap and Detergent Association (www.cleaning101.com), the U.S. Home of the Cleaning Product and Oleochemical Industries(SM), represents manufacturers of household, industrial, and institutional cleaning products, their ingredients and finished packaging, and oleochemical producers. SDA is located at 1500 K Street, NW, Suite 300, Washington, DC 20005.