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Millennium appoints Vice President for Performance Chemicals
May 2001
NEWS AND VIEWS Akzo Nobel constructs facility to serve European aerospace market Akzo Nobel Aerospace Coatings (ANAC) recently began constructing a US$2.7-million facility to house small-batch production and colour-blending operations for aerospace coatings.
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and American Home Products and A.H. Robins in Richmond, Virginia. E. Whitehead Elmore, formerly Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary, was promoted during March 2001 to Executive Vice President and Secretary of Albemarle.
Contact: Albemarle Corp, 330 South Fourth Street, PO Box 1335 Richmond, VA 23210, USA; tel: +1-804 788 6000; fax: +1-804 388 7686.
Called the Aerospace Colour Centre (ACC), it is located on the north end of the existing Akzo Nobel plant in Sassenheim, The Netherlands.
Millennium appoints Vice President for Performance Chemicals
According to ANAC, the facility will be used to manufacture custom colour aerospace top-coats to customer specifications, using automatic dispensing and colour computer technology. Quality control and 'colour development' will be carried out in a purpose-built humidity and temperature-controlled laboratory. 'Climatised' spray booths, drying and colour-testing areas are included in the same facility.
US-based Millennium Chemicals Inc has appointed Jack Von Ohlen Vice President - Performance Chemicals. In this position, he will oversee the growth of Millennium's performance ultrafine TiO2, zirconia, titanium tetrachloride and cadmium colours and silica businesses.
The facility will produce a range of aerospace top-coat products and is to be commissioned early in the fourth quarter of 2001.
Contact: Akzo Nobel Aerospace Coatings lnc, East Water Street, Waukegan, 1L 60085, USA tel. +1-847 623 4200;fax: +1-847 625 3200.
Albemarle names Vice President and General Counsel Albemarle Corp of Richmond, Virginia, USA, has announced that George Manson Jr has joined the company as Vice President and General Counsel. In this role he assumes responsibility for Albemarle's law department as chief legal officer for the company. Manson most recently served as Vice President and General Counsel for Hamilton Beach Proctor Silex Company in Richmond, Virginia. He brings to Albemarle broad experience having served as both private and corporate counsel with such firms as Jones, Walker, Waechter, Poitevent, Carrere & Denegre in New Orleans
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Von Ohlen, who was previously Vice President, Marketing and Business Management for Millennium Petrochemicals, will report to Robert E. Lee, Executive Vice President - Growth and Development.
Contact: Millennium Chemicals lnc, 230 Half Mile Road, PO Box 7015, Red Bank, NJ 07701 USA; tel. +1-732 933 5000; fax: +1-732 933 5200.
Great Lakes makes 'Health and Safety' appointment Great Lakes Chemical Corp has appointed John B. Blatz as Vice President, Environment, Health and Safety. In this capacity he will report to Mark Bulriss, Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer, oversee the company's broad-based health and safety initiatives, and lead the company's environmental compliance activities, says the US company. Blatz comes to Great Lakes from Dexter Corp where he served as Vice President, Environmental & Process Management for ten years. Before that, he spent two years with
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NEWS AND VIEWS Akzo Nobel constructs facility to serve European aerospace market Akzo Nobel Aerospace Coatings (ANAC) recently began constructing a US$2.7-million facility to house small-batch production and colour-blending operations for aerospace coatings.
Additives for Polymers
and American Home Products and A.H. Robins in Richmond, Virginia. E. Whitehead Elmore, formerly Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary, was promoted during March 2001 to Executive Vice President and Secretary of Albemarle.
Contact: Albemarle Corp, 330 South Fourth Street, PO Box 1335 Richmond, VA 23210, USA; tel: +1-804 788 6000; fax: +1-804 388 7686.
Called the Aerospace Colour Centre (ACC), it is located on the north end of the existing Akzo Nobel plant in Sassenheim, The Netherlands.
Millennium appoints Vice President for Performance Chemicals
According to ANAC, the facility will be used to manufacture custom colour aerospace top-coats to customer specifications, using automatic dispensing and colour computer technology. Quality control and 'colour development' will be carried out in a purpose-built humidity and temperature-controlled laboratory. 'Climatised' spray booths, drying and colour-testing areas are included in the same facility.
US-based Millennium Chemicals Inc has appointed Jack Von Ohlen Vice President - Performance Chemicals. In this position, he will oversee the growth of Millennium's performance ultrafine TiO2, zirconia, titanium tetrachloride and cadmium colours and silica businesses.
The facility will produce a range of aerospace top-coat products and is to be commissioned early in the fourth quarter of 2001.
Contact: Akzo Nobel Aerospace Coatings lnc, East Water Street, Waukegan, 1L 60085, USA tel. +1-847 623 4200;fax: +1-847 625 3200.
Albemarle names Vice President and General Counsel Albemarle Corp of Richmond, Virginia, USA, has announced that George Manson Jr has joined the company as Vice President and General Counsel. In this role he assumes responsibility for Albemarle's law department as chief legal officer for the company. Manson most recently served as Vice President and General Counsel for Hamilton Beach Proctor Silex Company in Richmond, Virginia. He brings to Albemarle broad experience having served as both private and corporate counsel with such firms as Jones, Walker, Waechter, Poitevent, Carrere & Denegre in New Orleans
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Von Ohlen, who was previously Vice President, Marketing and Business Management for Millennium Petrochemicals, will report to Robert E. Lee, Executive Vice President - Growth and Development.
Contact: Millennium Chemicals lnc, 230 Half Mile Road, PO Box 7015, Red Bank, NJ 07701 USA; tel. +1-732 933 5000; fax: +1-732 933 5200.
Great Lakes makes 'Health and Safety' appointment Great Lakes Chemical Corp has appointed John B. Blatz as Vice President, Environment, Health and Safety. In this capacity he will report to Mark Bulriss, Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer, oversee the company's broad-based health and safety initiatives, and lead the company's environmental compliance activities, says the US company. Blatz comes to Great Lakes from Dexter Corp where he served as Vice President, Environmental & Process Management for ten years. Before that, he spent two years with
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