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MEETINGS
Reseach
Committee Meeting: January 15 and 16, 2003 at Ramada
O'Hare, Rosemont, IL (Chicago Area). Tower rooms requested.
The June 2003 meeting
will be held at The Woodlands Inn and Resort in Wilkes Barre,
Pennsylvania on June 2-4, 2003.
There will be a Keith Millis Symposium on October 20-23, 2003 at the
Crowne Plaza Resort in Hilton Head Island, South Carolina.
BUSINESS
Columbus, Ohio (USA) -
Ashland Specialty Chemical Company's Foundry Products Division
announced today the creation of two new global business units, a new
name for its overall business, and a new logo.
"For over a
century, we've been a leading supplier of binders and consumables to
the sand casting market," says Mike Swartzlander, vice president
and general manager of the newly christened Ashland Casting
Solutions. "To deliver increased value to customers, we
have expanded our strategic focus beyond sand binder products to the
entire metal casting process and new metal casting technologies.
We've reorganized and renamed our business in line with our new
identity."
Two Global Business
Units
To better focus human and materials resources against customer
challenges in its expanding markets, Ashland Casting Solutions will be
organized into two global business units.
The newly created Foundry
Binder Solutions business unit will focus on Ashland's sand binder
product lines and services and build on the company's worldwide
technical leadership in cold box and binder systems. Greg MacIver
has been named business director of Foundry Binder Solutions.
In addition, a Metal
Casting Specialties business unit will concentrate on the nonbinder
metal casting consumables business. This organization will be
responsible for existing refractory coatings, sand additives, core
adhesives, releases, sleeves and filter lines as well as for leveraging
Ashland's technological expertise into other casting areas such as lost
foam, permanent mold, high pressure die, and investment casting.
Philip Lipianka has been named director of Metal Casting Specialties.
"I'm confident that
these more focused business units will yield both operational and
product benefits for customers," adds Swartzlander. "In
most cases, the organizational changes will also be transparent to
current customers. They will continue to be served by the same
salespeople and customer service representatives."
New Casting Solutions
Name and Company Logo Complement Structural Changes
The organizational
realignment and name change to Casting Solutions coincides with the
launch of a new, more contemporary and dynamic logo for all of Ashland
Specialty Chemical Company.
About Ashland
Ashland Casting
Solutions, a business unit of Ashland Specialty Chemical Company, is a
leader in supplying products, processes and technologies to the global
marketplace for cold box sand binder systems and non-binder metal
casting systems.
Ashland Specialty
Chemical Company, a division of Ashland Inc., is a leading, worldwide
supplier of specialty chemicals serving industries including adhesives,
automotive, composites, foundry, merchant marine, paint, paper,
plastics, semiconductor, watercraft and water treatment. Visit the
website www.ashspec.com to learn
more about these operations.
Ashland, Inc. is a
Fortune 500 company providing products, services, and customer solutions
throughout the world. Our businesses include road construction,
specialty chemicals, lubricants, car-care products, chemical and
plastics distribution and transportation fuels. Through the
dedication of our employees, we are "The Who in How Things Work.TM"
Find us at www.ashland.com.
PEOPLE
Milwaukee, Wisconsin - Grede Foundries, Inc., has named the following individuals as Vice Presidents:
Tam Trudeau-Ebenhoeh for the Vassar foundry in Vassar, Michigan,
Jeff Friday for the Liberty foundry in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and
Dave Roycraft for the New Castle foundry in New Castle, Indiana.
Trudeau-Ebenhoeh joined Grede in 1991 at its Vassar foundry. Most recently, she served as Works Manager of the Vassar foundry.
Friday joined Grede in 1992 at its Reedsburg foundry in Reedsburg, Wisconsin. Most recently, he served as Works Manager at its Liberty foundry.
Roycraft joined Grede in 1999 also at its New Castle foundry as Factory Manager and became Works Manager in November, 1999.
Grede Foundries operates foundries in the U.S. and the U.K., and is a recognized leading producer of high quality castings in gray iron, ductile iron, and steel.
TROY, Mich., December
11, 2002 - INTERMET Corporation announced today that its Board of
Directors elected Dr. Gary F. Ruff as President and Chief
Operating Officer (COO) of the Corporation.
Dr. Ruff most recently
was Executive Vice President and a member of the Company's Operating
Committee.
Chairman and CEO John
Doddridge also announced that it is his intention to step down as Chief
Executive Officer of the Company in July 2003, but remain as Chairman of
the Board. Mr. Doddridge was elected Chairman and Chief Executive
Officer of the Company in October 1994.
TROY, Mich., December
16, 2002 - INTERMET Corporation announced that effective today, Thomas
E. Prucha has been promoted to the position of Vice President,
Technical Services, from Director, Process Research &
Development. He reports to Dr. Gary F. Ruff, who recently was
named President and COO of INTERMET. In addition, Prucha will be a
member of the Corporate Operating Committee.
Prucha's new
responsibilities include oversight of INTERMET's research and
development, materials, process and product engineering and development,
environmental activities, and facilities engineering.
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