Myron Petruch, president of Sun Chemical’s Performance Pigments division, has been
named an executive officer of DIC
Corporation, Sun
Chemical’s parent company based in Tokyo,
Japan.
As an executive officer with DIC, Petruch
has been given additional operational and
strategic responsibilities
within DIC’s Global Pigments organization. Petruch becomes only the second
Western-based executive officer at DIC.
“Myron’s appointment clearly sig-
nals DIC and Sun Chemical’s intention
to be a global force in the pigments
business,” said Rudi Lenz, president and
CEO of Sun Chemical. “DIC has rec-
ognized Myron’s tremendous track re-
cord of success within our Performance
Pigments business, and he will be a ma-
jor asset to DIC as he brings his truly
global knowledge of the pigment busi-
ness to them, while retaining his Sun
Chemical responsibilities.”
Petruch joined Sun Chemical in 2008
as president of its Performance Pigments
business, and has led the division to un-
precedented growth in both sales and
profitability through a combination of
organic growth and strategic acquisition.
He started his career at the Engelhard
Corporation, now part of BASF, and has
broad general management experience at
progressively more senior levels.
Kloster Named Head of
BASF Automotive OEM
Coatings Solutions Europe
Business Unit
Dr. Thomas Kloster took over the position as head of the Automotive OEM
Coatings Solutions Europe business unit
at BASF’s Coatings division. In this position, he succeeds Dr. Martin Jung who
oversees the integration of Chemetall
after the successful acquisition of the
business. In 2001, he transferred from
the consulting company McKinsey &
Company to BASF. After holding different positions in the fine chemicals and
construction chemicals segment – in
Shanghai/China and elsewhere – Kloster
served as VP, Strategy, for the BASF group
in Ludwigshafen/Germany. CW
Sun Chemical’s Myron Petruch
Named Executive Officer of DIC Corporation
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