MOSCOW (MRC) -- Chemical supplier DuPont has promoted Randy Stone to the position of president of its performance materials business, said the company on its site.
Stone replaces Patrick E. Lindner, who has resigned from the company to accept another position.
"Randy brings a depth of business knowledge and global leadership skills combined with a record of success in executing for superior business results," said DuPont executive vice president Marc Doyle.
Stone joined DuPont in 2007 and has served in progressive leadership roles for the DuPont Dow Elastomers joint venture and DuPont Performance Elastomers business, the latter while located in Shanghai, China. Stone also served as director of investor relations, and most recently in DuPont Performance Materials as global business director, high performance solutions.
As MRC informed earlier, Hengli Petrochemical Company (Hengli), based in Dalian, China, has awarded DuPont a contract to supply the alkylation and spent acid regeneration (SAR) technologies for the new, grassroots refinery in the Changxing Island Harbor Industrial Zone.
DuPont is an American chemical company that was founded in July, 1802. The company manufactures a wide range of chemical products, leading extensive innovative research in this field. The company is the inventor of many unique plastics and other materials, including neoprene, nylon, Teflon, Kevlar, Mylar, Tyvek, etc. DuPont was the developer and main producer of Freon used in the production of refrigeration equipment.
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