SABIC Innovative Plastics - SABIC Innovative Plastics Names Charlie Crew President and CEO

BERGEN OP ZOOM, The Netherlands – May 20, 2008 – SABIC Innovative Plastics today appear that Charlie Crew has been answer to admiral and CEO of the company, able immediately. Crew will advance the multi-billion-dollar engineering thermoplastics business with operations in added than 25 countries and over 10,500 advisers worldwide. Crew succeeds Brian T. Gladden who larboard the aggregation to accompany added opportunities.

“We are admiring to name a proven, affecting baton such as Charlie as admiral and CEO of our thermoplastics business,” said SABIC Vice Chairman and CEO Mohamed H. Al-Mady. “Charlie is acclaimed throughout the industry, and is a awful admired baton above the absolute SABIC organization.”

Crew has had a continued and able career with the company. He abutting GE Plastics in 1977 as an anniversary manager, and over the years he has captivated a array of roles of accretion responsibility. Crew was admiral and arch controlling administrator of LNP* Engineering Plastics, and served as carnality admiral and accepted administrator of the Cycolac* and Geloy* resins and petrochemicals business. He led the European operations as admiral and chief managing administrator of GE Plastics Europe, Middle East, and Africa, and aswell was carnality admiral and accepted administrator bartering operations for GE Plastics Americas. Most afresh Crew was carnality admiral and accepted administrator of SABIC Innovative Plastics’ all-around ventures business. Crew accelerating from Villanova University in Pennsylvania with a bachelor’s amount in marketing.

“This centralized advance underscores the abyss of our administration aggregation and the backbone of our assumption plan,” connected Al-Mady. “Charlie is a acclimatized controlling with added than 30 years in the plastics business, ensuring chain of administration aural this analytical business.”

SABIC Innovative Plastics was launched in 2007 afterward the accretion of GE Plastics.

SABIC Innovative Plastics Media Contact:
The Americas
Jodi Kennedy
SABIC Innovative Plastics, Pittsfield, Mass.
Tel: +1 413 448 7383
E-Mail: jodi.kennedy@sabic-ip.com

Agency Media Contacts
Europe
Tessa Vroegop
Marketing Solutions, Bergen op Zoom,
The Netherlands
Tel: +31 164 317 013
E-Mail: tvroegop@marketingsolutions.be

About SABIC Innovative Plastics

SABIC Innovative Plastics is a leading, all-around supplier of engineering thermoplastics with a
75-year history of advance solutions that break its customers’ a lot of acute challenges. Today, SABIC Innovative Plastics is a multi-billion-dollar aggregation with operations in added than 25 countries and over 10,500 advisers worldwide. The aggregation continues to advance the plastics industry with chump accord and connected investments in new polymer technologies, all-around appliance development, action technologies, and environmentally amenable solutions that serve assorted markets such as automotive, electronics, architecture & construction, transportation, and healthcare.

The company’s all-encompassing artefact portfolio includes thermoplastic resins, coatings, specialty compounds, film, and sheet. SABIC Innovative Plastics (www.sabic-ip.com) is a wholly endemic accessory of Saudi Basic Industries Corporation (SABIC), one of the world’s top 5 petrochemicals manufacturers.

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