Arkema appoints new Vice President Raw Materials Purchasing

Jean-Francois Chesneau is Arkema Group’s new Vice President Raw Materials Purchasing effective July 1, 2009. He became a part of Elf Atochem in 1991, handling various sales and marketing functions and was the key accounts manager in the Commodity Plastics Division at Total Petrochemicals prior to becoming the director of the company’s styrene business. It was in 2005 when he joined Arkema Group as General Manager of the Acylic Monomer activity within the Acrylics business unit. (July 8, 2009)