02.06.07
Sartomer Company named Dr. Luigi Colantuoni president, replacing Nicholas Trainer, who retired after 37 years with the company.
Dr. Colantuoni will report to Hugues Woestelandt, chief executive officer of Total Specialty Chemicals Branch, Sartomer’s parent company. He will be responsible for general management of Sartomer, with $470 million in annual sales, 12 manufacturing sites and more than 600 employees. He will also be responsible for growing the hydrocarbon resins business in North and South America, with sales of $130 million in 2006. He will focus on the company’s continued global expansion, particularly new investment projects in the Far East, the Americas and Europe.
From 2000 to 2006, Dr. Colantuoni was president of Atotech Japan and vice president of Atotech Far East. Atotech is a specialty chemical division of Total and has more than 1,300 employees, with five manufacturing sites and five application centers throughout the Far East.
Before the last assignment in Far East, he worked for 14 years at Atotech and was managing director of Atotech Austria from 1995 to 1999, where he oversaw business development in Austria, Hungary, Croatia and Slovenia.
He earned a Laurea with summa cum laude in chemical engineering from the University of Naples, Italy in 1979 and an MBA from the European Institute of Business Administration, Fontainebleau, France in 1985.
Dr. Colantuoni will report to Hugues Woestelandt, chief executive officer of Total Specialty Chemicals Branch, Sartomer’s parent company. He will be responsible for general management of Sartomer, with $470 million in annual sales, 12 manufacturing sites and more than 600 employees. He will also be responsible for growing the hydrocarbon resins business in North and South America, with sales of $130 million in 2006. He will focus on the company’s continued global expansion, particularly new investment projects in the Far East, the Americas and Europe.
From 2000 to 2006, Dr. Colantuoni was president of Atotech Japan and vice president of Atotech Far East. Atotech is a specialty chemical division of Total and has more than 1,300 employees, with five manufacturing sites and five application centers throughout the Far East.
Before the last assignment in Far East, he worked for 14 years at Atotech and was managing director of Atotech Austria from 1995 to 1999, where he oversaw business development in Austria, Hungary, Croatia and Slovenia.
He earned a Laurea with summa cum laude in chemical engineering from the University of Naples, Italy in 1979 and an MBA from the European Institute of Business Administration, Fontainebleau, France in 1985.