Coatings World - July 2010

People on the Move
R. Korach named president of RPM BSG

RPM Building Solutions Group (BSG) has named Randall J. Korach its new president. He succeeds Jeffrey L.

Korach, his father, who retired on June 1, 2010. Randy Korach had previously served as RPM BSG chief operating officer. Prior, he held various operational and management positions with Tremco Incorporated, the largest operating unit of RPM BSG, most recently as president of its Global Sealants Division.

Randy Korach

dent of BASF’s Catalysts division
located in Iselin, New Jersey, will take
over responsibilities for the Poly-
urethanes division. Frank A. Bozich
will become head of the Catalysts
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WULFSOHN RESIGNS VP POST AT PPG PPG Industries has announced that William A. Wulfsohn, senior vice president, industrial coatings, has resigned from the company. A successor has not been named. Wulfsohn joined PPG as vice president, coatings, and managing director, PPG Europe, in 2003, and he was appointed senior vice president, industrial coatings, in 2005. In his most recent position, Wulfsohn was responsible for the company’s automotive, industrial and packaging coatings businesses, PPG’s Asia/Pacific region and the company’s information technology function.

BASF MAKE PERSONNEL CHANGES The board of executive directors of BASF has made a number of changes in its management team. Jacques Delmoitiez, currently president of BASF’s Polyurethanes division located in Brussels, Belgium, will become president of BASF’s regional division Europe, located in Ludwigshafen, Germany effective October 1. The current president, Walter Seufert is retiring. Wayne T. Smith, currently presi-