MOSCOW (MRC) -- Ellen Kullman, the former CEO of DuPont, was named the head of Carbon, a 3D-printing company that can use a host of thermoset resins in additive manufacturing, said Forbes.
Joseph DeSimone was named executive chairman of the board, the company said. He is a co-founder of the company and was the CEO for the past six years.
DeSimone will focus on promoting further mainstream adoption of the technology and spreading the company's vision to existing and new customers, partners and the public.
Kullman will lead the development and execution of short- and long-term strategies, Carbon said. She had been on the company's board. Both appointments are immediate.
Carbon's additive-manufacturing technology uses a process similar to stereolithography as well as heat curing. The company won this year's Polyurethane Innovation Award.
3D-printing unicorn Carbon is bringing in a new high-powered CEO as it goes beyond the startup stage. Ellen Kullman, former CEO of DuPont, replaces cofounder Joe DeSimone, effective immediately, the company announced today. DeSimone, who had been in the CEO role since launching Carbon in 2013, becomes executive chairman of the board with the change.
DeSimone, 55, a former professor at the University of North Carolina, told Forbes that as he built out the Redwood City, California, company’s leadership team over the past 18 months, he’d begun to think about his own role at the expanding business—and who might take on the top operating spot. “[Investor] Bobby Long is the people person on the board. He and I talk seven times a week, and it was through that conversation that the idea emerged,” DeSimone said. “Bobby has a lot of ideas, often harebrained and not possible. And we pulled it off."
As MRC informed earlier, DuPont Teijin Films has launched a new depolymerisation process which upcycles post-consumer PET waste into technically-advanced BOPET films suitable for use in various applications.
As per MRC's DataScope, imports of injection moulding PET chips in Russia increased by 14% in the first ten months of the year compared with the same period a year ago and reached 106,000 tonnes. The same indicator in January-October 2019 amounted to 92,700 tonnes. The share of bottle grade PET imports from China amounted to 90% compared to 86% for the same period last year.
DuPont Teijin Films is a joint venture between DuPont and Teijin Ltd and supplies polyester films and related services to a wide range of industries, including healthcare, alternative energy, electronics and packaging.
DuPont makes a broad array of industrial chemicals, synthetic fibres, petroleum-based fuels and lubricants, pharmaceuticals, building materials, sterile and specialty packaging materials, cosmetics ingredients, and agricultural chemicals. It has plants, subsidiaries, and affiliates worldwide.
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