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[May 2007]
Ferro Appoints Vice President of Operations
Ferro Corporation (Cleveland, OH, USA) has announced that Tom Austin has joined the company as Vice President, Operations.
Mr Austin spent 30 years at The Dow Chemical Company in manufacturing and plant management roles across several of its operations. His experience at Dow spanned plant maintenance and production process improvement; Six Sigma implementation; environmental operations and safety management; research and development; and technology licensing. He was Global Operations Leader for Dow's chlor-alkali derivatives business when he retired in 2003. He holds a degree in chemical engineering from Mississippi State University.
At Ferro, Mr Austin has senior management responsibility for environmental health and safety performance and security processes and systems. He will work with operating and plant management at Ferro's facilities across the world on work process enhancement and standardisation to optimise manufacturing operations. He reports to Ferro Chairman, President and CEO James Kirsch.
"Tom is a deeply experienced, hard driving manufacturing executive whose experience will help Ferro strengthen processes and systems and accelerate our success in meeting our performance targets," said Mr Kirsch.
www.ferro.com
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