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[April 2006]
Rockwood Holdings Appoints New V-P Investor Relations & Communications
Rockwood Holdings Inc (Princeton, NJ, USA), a global producer of speciality chemicals and advanced materials and parent company of CeramTec and Chemetall, has appointed Timothy McKenna as Vice President, Investor Relations and Communications, effective 1 April 2006.
Mr McKenna was most recently Senior Vice President, investor relations and communications, for Smurfit-Stone Container Corporation, the largest North American paperboard and packaging company, headquartered in Chicago. He joined Smurfit-Stone’s predecessor, Jefferson Smurfit Corporation, in 1995 and during the past 10 years has been in charge of the company’s investor communications, internal and external communications and government relations. Before Smurfit-Stone, he spent 14 years in investor relations and communications with Union Camp Corporation, Wayne, NJ, USA, a producer of paper, packaging and chemicals.
Rockwood Holdings Inc is the ultimate parent company of Rockwood Specialties Group Inc, a leading global speciality chemicals and advanced materials company. Rockwood has a worldwide employee base of approximately 10,800 people and net sales of approximately US$3.1 billion in 2005. The company focuses on global niche segments of the speciality chemicals and advanced materials markets, including specialty chemicals, performance additives, titanium dioxide pigments, advanced ceramics, custom synthesis, specialty compounds and electronics.
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