CHEMTURA NAMES O’CONNOR VP, TRANSPORTATION LUBRICANTS

Chemtura Corporation (NYSE: CEM) has appointed Sean O’Connor to Vice President, Transportation Lubricants for its Performance Specialties business group. He is responsible for strategy, R&D and marketing for products that improve performance for the automotive, aviation and marine industries.

Mr. O’Connor reports to Group President Robert Wedinger. Mr. O’Connor’s new post is part of Chemtura’s forward strategy: By focusing on end-use markets, it will be better able to serve current customer needs, anticipate their future requirements and target rapidly growing industry segments.

Mr. O’Connor joined Chemtura in 1994 as business manager, Additive Sulfonates, with responsibility for the global marketing of sulfonates into the automotive and marine market segments. He was promoted to Vice President of Petroleum Additives in 1996, managing all aspects of that global business. In 2003, he was named Vice President of Vinyl Additives, and in 2004, Vice President of Plastics Additives with global accountability for all Chemtura polyolefin additives, PVC additives and intermediates.

Mr. O’Connor began his career in 1981 as a research and development scientist in the pharmaceutical industry. He joined BP Chemicals in 1985 as a research chemist, engaging in the development of new lubricant and fuel additives. At BP, he invented and championed two new products through commercialization. In 1993, he moved to Adibis, a BP subsidiary, where he served as product manager and business manager for Marine Lubricant Additives.

Mr. O’Connor has authored and presented a number of scientific and product promotional papers at international conferences. He holds more than 25 separate U.S. patents in the field of lubricant and fuel additives. He was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry in 2003. He received his Bachelor of Science with honors in chemistry and a Ph.D from the University of Bristol, UK School of Chemistry.

Reader enquiries