DuPont exec joins firm that makes Gore-Tex
Just three months after he was named DuPont Co.'s top plastics executive, Patrick E. Lindner has quit the company where he worked for 20 years to join Delaware-based W.L. Gore & Associates, the privately held $3 billion developer of Gore-Tex fabrics.
Just three months after he was named DuPont Co.'s top plastics executive, Patrick E. Lindner has quit the company where he worked for 20 years to join Delaware-based W.L. Gore & Associates, the privately held $3 billion developer of Gore-Tex fabrics.
"He brings a broad range of complementary experience and expertise to Gore," Gore spokeswoman Amy Calhoun said Monday. "We're confident he will contribute in many ways."
Gore, which employs 10,000, eschews traditional business titles. Lindner will be, like other Gore people of many functions, an "associate."
DuPont's Performance Materials, which Lindner headed, is scheduled to be folded into a Midland, Mich.-based successor company to Dow Chemical Co. as part of the planned merger and three-way split of the chemical giants' businesses. The group makes adhesives, peelable lids, barriers, and sealants for food, cosmetics, industrial packaging, and medical products, among other uses.
Replacing Lindner, a Ph.D. polymer chemist and patent-holder, at Performance Materials is Randy Stone, a South Dakota State University business graduate with an M.B.A. from Lehigh University who joined DuPont in 2007 and ran the company's elastomers business from Shanghai.
Stone also served as global business director - high-performance solutions of the Performance Materials unit, and as a director of investor relations.
The Dow successor company that Stone's unit is slated to join focuses on Material Science products. Dow and DuPont also plan separate companies for agriculture (pesticides and genetically modified seeds) and specialty products (DuPont's current nutrition, health, biosciences, safety, protection, communications, and electronics lines, plus Dow Electronics Materials).
The agriculture and speciality products companies will have headquarters in Wilmington.
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