PHILADELPHIA - Rohm and Haas Co. announced several key management appointments, including James Swanson as head of the company's North American Architectural and Functional Coatings business and M. Reginald Horne as Global Business director for Powder Coatings.
Swanson, who had been Global Business director for Powder Coatings, will succeed Suzanne Rowland as head of the coatings unit, the company's largest regional business. The business's products include materials used in the house paint, graphic-arts, industrial-coatings, leather, paper, and textile markets. Swanson headed Morton International's powder-coatings business prior to Morton's acquisition by Rohm and Haas, and he also held engineering and sales-management positions with Texaco, Celanese and Air Products and Chemicals Inc.