People in the News.Hilken named president of Bayer FAR Gunter Hilken was named president for Bayer's Fibers, Additives and Rubber Division in Akron, OH. Hilken most recently served Bayer in Sarnia, Ontario, Canada where he has been senior vice president and site manager since 1997. In his new position, he also becomes executive vice president of Bayer, succeeding Richard White, who retired after 32 years with the company. Under Hilken's leadership, four Bayer North American North American named after North America. North American blastomycosis see North American blastomycosis. North American cattle tick see boophilusannulatus. manufacturing units have achieved QS-9000 certification. Hilken joined Bayer AG's rubber division in Dormagen, Germany in 1984. He held positions in both research and development and process development before relocating to the Sarnia site as director of NBR NBR Number NBR Nightly Business Report (PBS show) NBR National Business Review (New Zealand weekly business newspaper) NBR National Bureau of Asian Research NBR National Board of Review in 1994. TECHNICAL CK Witco promoted Robert Cornell to technical director of performance chemicals and elastomers. Degussa-Huls named Patrick DiMauro technical marketing manager of mechanical robber goods. Ben Smith joined Magpower as application engineer. Richard Kelly was appointed R&D manager of Heveatex. MANAGEMENT Charles Fritz was appointed president and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of VMI VMI Virginia Military Institute VMI Vendor Managed Inventory VMI Vertical Motion Index VMI Valtakunnan Metsien Inventointi (Finnish: National Forest Inventory) VMI Video Module Interface Americas. Freudenberg-NOK appointed Tom Butcher vice president. Leesa Smith was appointed vice president of treasury and financial services. Joseph L. Gatto was appointed worldwide business director for CK Witco's Royalene EPDM EPDM Ethylene-Propylene-Diene-Monomer EPDM Enterprise Product Data Management EPDM Ethylene Propylene Dimonomer (industrial/commercial piping/plumbing components) EPDM Engineering Product Data Management polymers business. Alex Beavers, Jr., was named CEO of Thomson Industries. Burgmann Seals America appointed Thomas Haan president. Alain Dery was named plant manager at Bridgestone/Firestone's Lavergne, TN facility. Yves Malouin was named plant manager at the company's Joliette, Quebec operation. Eagle Elastomer elastomer (ĭlăs`təmər), substance having to some extent the elastic properties of natural rubber. The term is sometimes used technically to distinguish synthetic rubbers and rubberlike plastics from natural rubber. promoted Nell Stephen to director of operations. Brian Chandler was promoted to corporate quality manager. Enrique Sosa was appointed to the supervisory board Supervisory board The board of directors that represents stakeholders in the governance of the corporation. of directors for DSM 1. DSM - Data Structure Manager. An object-oriented language by J.E. Rumbaugh and M.E. Loomis of GE, similar to C++. It is used in implementation of CAD/CAE software. DSM is written in DSM and C and produces C as output. . Nico Gerardu was appointed director of DSM's anti-infectives business group. Firestone Building Products Firestone Building Products is a division of BFS Diversified Products, LLC, a subsidiary of Bridgestone Americas Holding, Inc. (BSAH). BSAH is a subsidiary of Bridgestone Corporation, the world’s largest tire and rubber company. named Jim Jannasch EPDM product manager. Exotic Rubber & Plastics named Mike Jahn product manager of manufactured products. International Marketing appointed Richard Lesher to its board of directors. SALES Phil LaDuke was named consultant services manager for Firestone Building Products' sales department. Roeland Polet was appointed vice president of sales and marketing for DSM Engineering Plastics. Ken Paul was appointed territory manager for the sales and technical service department at DSM Elastomers Americas. The company named Paul McKinstry marketing manager of the automotive business. Gabor Nagy joined Davis-Standard as senior sales engineer. EMS-PRIMID appointed Jeff Testerman sales manager covering the normeastern united States. Palmer Supplies appointed Russ Bachman account manager for the company's Cleveland, OH territory. Clariant Masterbatches Division named Jay Lindstrom director of marketing, Americas. Marc Alderfer was appointed sales and marketing manager for Clariant Performance Plastics. Maxcess International promoted John Sanders to multi-product systems sales specialist. Amy Hsu joined Fitz Chem as sales coordinator. Spirex named Jeffrey Brock southeast regional sales manager. AASSOCIATIONS The 2000 American Chemical Society The American Chemical Society (ACS) is a learned society (professional association) based in the United States that supports scientific inquiry in the field of chemistry. Founded in 1876 at New York University, the ACS currently has over 160,000 members at all degree-levels and in Akron Section officers are as follows: * chair elect, Liam Guiney; * secretary, Ruth Murray; * treasurer, Bruce Darlington; * councilor coun·cil·or also coun·cil·lor n. A member of a council, as one convened to advise a governor. See Usage Note at council. coun , Jim Visintainer; and * alternate councilor, Dan Jones. The General Assembly of the European Committee of Machinery Manufacturers for the Plastics and Rubber Industries elected Peter Neumann president and Marco Biraghi vice president. AWARDS The International Institute of Synthetic Rubber Producers awarded its Institute Technical Award to Yoshihiro Tidani, formerly manager and advisor of Nippon Zeon. The Institute General Award was presented to Donald Duncan, former president/CEO of DuPont Dow Elastomers. RETIREES Barry Harper retired from his position as plant manager of Bridgestone/Firestone's Lavergne, TN facility. OBITUARY President and CEO of Jasper Rubber, A.W. Place, Jr., died September 21, 1999. |
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