DuPont has named John L. Chrosniak, president, DuPont Sustainable Solutions, succeeding James R. Weigand, who has been
appointed chairman and CEO of the
DuPont Teijin Films joint venture.
Chrosniak will report to Marc Doyle,
senior vice president, DuPont Safety &
Protection, while Weigand will report
to Patrick E. Lindner, president, DuPont
Performance Polymers.
Weigand joined DuPont in 1981 and
has served in several leadership positions in corporate finance and planning.
In 2003, Weigand was named global
business director for Advanced Fibers
Systems, where he had global business
leadership responsibilities for products
under the DuPont Kevlar and Nomex
brands sold into a variety of markets
including military, government, automotive, aerospace and oil and gas. In
September 2007 he was named vice president and general manager of DuPont
Safety Resources. In October 2009, he
was appointed president of DuPont
Safety Resources, which is now part of
DuPont Sustainable Solutions, an integrated business that also includes segments of DuPont Clean Technologies and
Coastal Training Technologies.
Chrosniak joined DuPont in 2005
and has served in leadership positions in
a number of businesses, most recently in
Electronics & Communications, where
he served as global business director of
DuPont Packaging Graphics. Prior to
DuPont, he was senior manager, Strategy
& Operations Practice at Deloitte and
worked with international clients across
different industries.
Chromaflo Technologies
Hires Tax and Compliance
Manager
Chromaflo Technologies, a leading inde-
pendent global suppliers of colorant sys-
tems, chemical and pigment dispersions,
has appointed Doug Hummer tax and
compliance manager at the Ashtabula,
Ohio site, reporting to Mark Astorino,
chief financial officer for Chromaflo. In
this position he is responsible for the
company’s tax compliance, tax planning
and accounting for income taxes.
BASF Supervisory Board
Extends Appointment
of Four Executive Board
Members by Five Years
The Supervisory Board of BASF SE has
extended the appointment of BASF chairman Kurt Bock to the board of executive directors as well as his appointment
as chairman until the end of the Annual
Shareholders’ Meeting in 2021. The appointment was originally scheduled to
expire in 2016.
The Supervisory Board also extended
the appointments of Martin Brudermüller,
vice chairman of the board of executive
directors; chief financial officer Hans-Ulrich Engel; and Harald Schwager,
member of the board of executive directors, by five years.
Emerald Kalama Chemical
Appoints Post K-FLEX
Business Director, Americas
Emerald Kalama Chemical, a business
group of Emerald Performance Materials,
has appointed Eric Post to the position
of K-FLEX business director, Americas.
Post will be responsible for the optimization and growth of the K-FLEX line
of low-VOC, non-phthalate plasticizers
and coalescents in the Americas region,
including planning and implementing
strategic business plans, building relationships with customers and identifying
new market opportunities.
Post has more than 20 years of ex-
perience in the specialty chemicals
industry, serving in technical, sales
management and business development
roles. Post joins Emerald from Elementis
Specialties, where he was market man-
ager for thickeners and additives used in
coatings, inks, adhesives and construc-
tion. He also previously held positions
with Evonik and National Starch and
Chemical (now Henkel).
Sherwin-Williams Hires 20-
Year Veteran for Bridge and
Highway Market
Sherwin-Williams Protective and Marine
Coatings has hired 20-year industry veteran Derrick Castle to lead project development work for the bridge and highway
market. As a project development manager, Castle will assist in directing the development and delivery of coatings solutions
designed to maximize the service life of
concrete and steel structures.
Castle brings two decades of chemistry
knowledge and structural steel coatings
industry service to the Sherwin-Williams
team. He will focus on the bridge and
highway market in the Southwest and
Midwest U.S.
Thomas DiGiannurio Named
VP, Engineering at Charles
Ross & Son Company
Engineering manager Thomas
DiGiannurio has been promoted to
VP, engineering at Charles Ross & Son
Company. DiGiannurio joined Ross in
1977 and has been a major contributor to the company’s worldwide operations. With his expertise in designing
process equipment and custom engineered machinery, DiGiannurio has assisted Ross Metal Fabricators (Deer
Park, NY), Ross Mixing (Port St. Lucie,
FL), Ross Engineering (Savannah, GA),
Ross Systems & Controls (Savannah,
GA), Nantong Ross Mixing Equipment
(Nantong, China), Ross Wuxi Equipment
(Wuxi, China) and Ross Process
Equipment (Pune, India), both personally and from his seat at the Hauppauge,
NY corporate headquarters. He has more
than 45 years of experience in metal fabrication, finite element analysis, CAD/
CAM design and solid modeling. CW
DuPont Announces Senior
Leadership Changes
