Total Petrochemicals USA, Inc. has announced the appointment of Stan Beisert to the position of plant manager for the company's Bayport Polyethylene Plant in Pasadena, CA.

KRATON Polymers LLC has announced the appointment of Michael Evans as vice president of its Asia Pacific region.

The Packaging Machinery Manufacturers Institute (PMMI) has issued a call for nominations for the Packaging Hall of Fame.

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Venture Tape Corp., a worldwide manufacturer of specialty adhesives, has named Robert Bruckmann as its new chief financial officer.

Royal Adhesives and Sealants LLC has announced the completion of its acquisition of the Hardman Adhesives and Elastomers business located in Belleville, NJ, from Elementis plc.

Specialty Coating Systems (SCS), a business unit of Cookson Electronics, has announced that their Parylene conformal coating services and raw materials (SCS Parylene dimers) are compliant with the European Union's Restriction on the Use of Certain Hazardous Substances (RoHS directive).

Dow has announced that it will further extend part of its polymeric methylene diphenyl diisocyanate (PMDI) operations at its LaPorte, TX, facility while the company's new, 500-million lb. PMDI facility in Freeport, TX, continues its start-up process.

Fusion UV Systems, Inc. recently announced that it has been granted U.S. patent 6,908,586 B1, "Free Radical Polymerization Method Having Reduced Premature Termination, Apparatus for Performing the Method, and Product Formed Thereby."

Gerald C. Marterer, Arizona Chemical vice president, has been named chairman and CEO of the board of directors for the Pine Chemicals Association (PCA) for 2005-2006.