Thursday, July 23, 2009

Phoenix: Specialty Chemical Provider Announces Personnel Changes

Tessenderlo Kerley, Inc. Announces Personnel Changes

PHOENIX--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Tessenderlo Kerley, Inc. (TKI) announced today Kevin Boltz, general manager of supply chain and a senior member of Jupiter Sulphur, LLC’s management team, has been promoted to Senior Vice President for MPR Services, Inc. MPR Services is TKI’s business unit serving gas treating systems in refineries, gas plants, ammonia plants, steel manufacturing and LNG facilities throughout the world. Boltz will report to Bob Schmitter, MPR President, and will focus on geographical business growth. He will divide his time between MPR Services and Jupiter Sulphur, maintaining his office in Phoenix. In addition to his responsibilities with TKI, Boltz has served the sulfur industry as past Chairman of The Sulfur Institute (TSI).

Russell Sides, director of industrial projects for TKI, replaces Kevin Boltz as director of supply chain and will be reporting to Larry Tryon, TKI’s CFO. Sides will oversee TKI’s purchasing activities and the management of raw material consumables. In addition, he will continue overseeing Tessenderlo Group’s ongoing strategic initiative plan as it pertains to the TKI organization. Sides is in the process of relocating his family from San Antonio, Texas, to Phoenix.

Jupiter Sulphur LLC represents over 20 years of partnership between Tessenderlo Kerley and the ConocoPhillips Oil Company, providing value-added sulfur products.

MPR Services supplies technically advanced mobile and permanently installed equipment, patented processes, and analytical services for cleaning and recovery of gas treating solutions with a corresponding economic and environmental improvement in plant operations.

Tessenderlo Kerley, Inc. headquartered in Phoenix, Arizona, produces and markets specialty chemical solutions, including fertilizers, crop protection chemicals and process chemicals and services to diverse markets in the United States, Mexico, Central and South America and selected European countries and the United Kingdom. TKI operates 10 manufacturing plants in North America, in addition to an extensive terminal network. (www.tkinet.com) TKI is a subsidiary of the Tessenderlo Group, Brussels, Belgium.

Tessenderlo Group is an international chemicals group with more than 100 branches in 20 countries. Around 8,100 people work for the group. The group is a world and European leader in most of its product areas. Tessenderlo Chemie NV is listed on Eurolist by Euronext Brussels and is part of Next 150 and BEL Mid. (www.tessenderlogroup.com)

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