John Lyon named as IISRP president 2012

ERJ staff report (DS)

Venice, Italy - At its annual general meeting being held in Venice this week, the International Institute of Synthetic Rubber Produces (IISRP) named John Lyon, Global Vice President, Butyl, ExxonMobil Chemical as elected President for the year 2012-2013

In addition to Lyon, who will also serve as President to the Americas Section, the other members elected to the Institute Executive Committee for the year 2012-2013 are:

Far East Section: Wang Yuqing of Sinopec, President, and Hideyuki Sugishita of Ube Industries, Vice President.

European Section: Ignacio Marco of Dynasol, President, Mikhail Gordin of Sibur, Vice President and Abraham Brink of Karbochem, Standing Member.

Americas Section: Barton Bowser of Dow Chemical Vice President and Tim Gorman of ISP Elastomers, Standing Member.

Continuing to serve on the Executive Committee are Antonio Protopapa, of Polimeri Europa, Past-President International, Wei-Hua Tu of TSRC as Treasurer and James L. McGraw, IISRP's Managing Director & CEO, Assistant Treasurer and Secretary.

In a separate announcement, the IISRP said it has elected Interpetrol S.A. as their most recent Affiliate Member. Interpetrol S.A., based in Geneva Switzerland, is a distributor of synthetic rubber. They have designated Mr. Miran Mujicic as the liaison representative and Mr. Petar Knezevic as his alternate.

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