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November 9, 2020
Hennington Joins Everchem
Everchem Specialty Chemicals is pleased to announce that Roger Hennington has joined our team as Technical Sales Manager. Roger has devoted his entire career to the Polyurethane industry and brings a
vast amount of experience in raw materials such as polyols, isocyanates, silicone surfactants and tertiary amine catalysts. He has held positions in both technical and commercial management and looks forward to working closely with our customers to support their profitable growth.
Everchem Specialty Chemicals is a sales, marketing and technology driven company supplying the North American market with urethane, epoxy and specialty industrial chemicals. Our sourcing abilities, coupled with our technical and market expertise result in real savings of both time and money for our customers.
Roger can be reached at roger@everchem.com.
November 9, 2020
Hennington Joins Everchem
Everchem Specialty Chemicals is pleased to announce that Roger Hennington has joined our team as Technical Sales Manager. Roger has devoted his entire career to the Polyurethane industry and brings a
vast amount of experience in raw materials such as polyols, isocyanates, silicone surfactants and tertiary amine catalysts. He has held positions in both technical and commercial management and looks forward to working closely with our customers to support their profitable growth.
Everchem Specialty Chemicals is a sales, marketing and technology driven company supplying the North American market with urethane, epoxy and specialty industrial chemicals. Our sourcing abilities, coupled with our technical and market expertise result in real savings of both time and money for our customers.
Roger can be reached at roger@everchem.com.
October 23, 2020
Huntsman Building Solutions Changes
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Gary Chapman
October 22, 2020 (281) 719-4324
Doug Kramer Moves into Key Consulting Role as Huntsman Building Solutions
Focuses on Strategic Growth Initiatives
THE WOODLANDS, Texas – Huntsman Building Solutions (HBS) today announced that Doug Kramer, the founder and architect of Icynene-Lapolla’s success in the spray foam polyurethane business, has
stepped down from his current role as joint President to become a consultant to the Business, focusing on strategic growth initiatives. Kramer will report directly to Tony Hankins, President of Huntsman
Polyurethanes, HBS’s parent company. Simon Baker, formerly joint president of HBS, will become the global President of HBS, effective immediately.
Kramer has already started the transition to his new, more focused and strategic role and will begin executing on several key initiatives he helped create, including those relating to commercial and sales excellence and promoting energy conservation through advocacy efforts at the federal, state and local level.
Tony Hankins said: “Doug and Simon have been instrumental in bringing Icynene-Lapolla and Demilec together to create the world’s leading spray polyurethane foam business. I’m appreciative of Doug’s dedication and efforts, which have taken us to the strong position we are in today. I look forward to the benefit of his continuing commitment and expert counsel as we take our spray foam business to the next level together.”
October 23, 2020
Huntsman Building Solutions Changes
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Gary Chapman
October 22, 2020 (281) 719-4324
Doug Kramer Moves into Key Consulting Role as Huntsman Building Solutions
Focuses on Strategic Growth Initiatives
THE WOODLANDS, Texas – Huntsman Building Solutions (HBS) today announced that Doug Kramer, the founder and architect of Icynene-Lapolla’s success in the spray foam polyurethane business, has
stepped down from his current role as joint President to become a consultant to the Business, focusing on strategic growth initiatives. Kramer will report directly to Tony Hankins, President of Huntsman
Polyurethanes, HBS’s parent company. Simon Baker, formerly joint president of HBS, will become the global President of HBS, effective immediately.
Kramer has already started the transition to his new, more focused and strategic role and will begin executing on several key initiatives he helped create, including those relating to commercial and sales excellence and promoting energy conservation through advocacy efforts at the federal, state and local level.
Tony Hankins said: “Doug and Simon have been instrumental in bringing Icynene-Lapolla and Demilec together to create the world’s leading spray polyurethane foam business. I’m appreciative of Doug’s dedication and efforts, which have taken us to the strong position we are in today. I look forward to the benefit of his continuing commitment and expert counsel as we take our spray foam business to the next level together.”
October 9, 2020
Dr. Gupta Passes Away
09. October 2020
We mourn the loss of our founder Dr. Heinz B. P. Gupta
On September 30, 2020, Dr. Heinz Bijoy Prosad Gupta (*1932 in Calcutta, India) passed away in Ratingen, Germany, at the impressive age of 88. He founded this publishing house in 1993. For many years he was editor-in-chief of GAK Gummi Fasern Kunststoffe and until 2019 publisher of various national and international specialist journals for the rubber, polyurethane and TPE industries.
Heinz Gupta studied chemistry at the University of Bonn, Germany, where he also received his doctorate. After graduating, he worked for Kabelwerke Duisburg and Paguag (Pahlsche Gummi- und Asbest-Gesellschaft) in Düsseldorf. From 1970 he was consultant to various manufacturers of tires, molded articles and sponge rubber products. In 1972, he assumed additional responsibilities as editor-in-chief of GAK, which had been published since 1948 by Gentner Verlag, then still under the name of Gummi-Asbest-Kunststoffe. His work in industry and as a consultant provided an excellent basis for this journalistic role and encouraged him to found Dr. Gupta Verlag in 1993 and to continue to run GAK himself.
He remained true to GAK’s declared goal of providing technical information that is both scientifically sound and comprehensible to the practitioner. Raw materials, machines, products, processes and their scientific backgrounds were the focus of this important source of information for technicians, engineers and chemists in the rubber industry. However, relevant economic and legal news were not ignored either. The magazine was given a special note by its unique editorials, in which Heinz Gupta questioned current events, sometimes critically, sometimes benevolently, sometimes argumentatively, but always humorously and thoughtfully. He spoke his mind, and he did not care whether it was appropriate.
Over the years Heinz Gupta broadened the portfolio of his publishing house. At K 2001, he launched PU Magazin, a new trade journal for the polyurethane industry. PU Magazine International followed in 2004 as an English-language edition. In 2006, GAK was expanded to include an English edition, RFP Rubber Fibres Plastics, and in 2009 the English-language TPE Magazine International was launched.
In 2006 his lifetime of service to the field was awarded with the plaque of the German Rubber Society for special achievements in research, technology and business as a mark of gratitude for his great commitment.
Most importantly, Dr. Gupta has worked tirelessly to maintain and improve the image of the industry, whose well-being was so close to his heart. His passion was the rubber industry. For decades, he was regarded as the “Gummi-Mann” who was a sought-after discussion partner at all important trade fairs, conferences and industry meetings. Often it was he who asked the first – usually well-intentioned – question after a lecture, just to break the ice.
Heinz Gupta leaves a big void not only in our publishing house. He will be greatly missed!
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