CHEMTURA NAMES DR. ROBERT WEDINGER CHIEF BUSINESS OFFICER

Chemtura Corporation(NYSE:CEM) has appointed Robert S. Wedinger, PhD as chief business officer, reporting directly to Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Robert Wood. Dr. Wedinger is now responsible for Chemtura's commercial organization and its four businesses: Polymer Additives, Performance Specialties, Crop and Consumer Products. Dr. Wedinger, who was serving as group president of Performance Specialties, will retain his Performance Specialties role in addition to his new responsibilities. He joined Chemtura in 2006 as vice president and general manager of Process Chemicals and Polymers.

Dr. Wedinger came to Chemtura from J.M. Huber Corporation in Maryland, a private diversified manufacturer, where he served as vice president and general manager of the performance materials business and the consumer products business. His previous positions include vice president and general manager of pharmaceutical fine chemicals for Honeywell International (AlliedSignal) in New Jersey; and global technical director for the food ingredients division of FMC Corporation in Pennsylvania..

Dr. Wedinger holds 10 U.S. patents and has three patents pending. He earned a Bachelor of Science in chemistry and biology from Wagner College and a Ph.D. in physical organic chemistry from the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He was a post-doctoral research fellow in synthetic organic chemistry at Harvard University. Dr. Wedinger is also a member of the SOCMA Board of Directors.

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