Ingevity Corporation announced that effective March 1, 2022, Mike Smith has elected to retire as executive vice president and president, Performance Chemicals, strategy and business development. Beginning January 1, 2022, Rich White, vice president, Industrial Specialties, and Steve Hulme, vice president, Engineered Polymers, at the company will co-lead the company’s Performance Chemicals segment. At that time, White will become senior vice president, Performance Chemicals, and president, Industrial Specialties and Pavement Technologies, and Hulme will be senior vice president, Performance Chemicals, and president, Engineered Polymers. White joined the company in 2019 from DuPont Nutrition and Health in Copenhagen, Denmark, where he was vice president of global accounts. Prior to DuPont, White spent 18 years at FMC Corporation serving as general manager of the health and nutrition business for the Europe, Middle East and Africa region; global sales director for health and nutrition; global procurement director; and marketing and sales director of the specialty alkali and lithium division. In 2020, Hulme joined the company from Maysta Chemical, where he was vice president of commercial operations. With over 30 years of experience in the polyurethanes industry managing complex international businesses, he spent 27 years at Air Products and Chemicals in various sales, marketing and business management roles in Germany and China. Hulme was vice president and general manager for the polyurethane additives business at Air Products prior to its sale to Evonik Industries AG.
Ingevity Corporation is engaged in developing, marketing, and bringing to market solutions that are renewably sourced. The Company operates through three segments: Performance Materials, Performance Chemicals, and Advanced Polymer Technologies. Performance Materials segment engineers, manufactures, and sells hardwood-based, chemically activated carbon products, which are produced through a technical and specialized process primarily for use in gasoline vapor emission control systems in cars, trucks, motorcycles, and boats. Performance Chemicals segment is comprised of two product lines: road technologies and industrial specialties. Its products are utilized in pavement construction, preservation, reconstruction and recycling, agrochemical dispersants, paper chemicals and other diverse industrial uses. Advanced Polymer Technologies segment produces caprolactone and caprolactone-based specialty polymers for use in coatings, resins, elastomers, adhesives, bioplastics, and medical devices.
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