CUYAHOGA FALLS, OH - Emerald Kalama Chemical, a business group of Emerald Performance Materials, has appointed Antonella Dall’Osto as EMEA Sales Manager focusing primarily on Italy and Spain. In this new position for the company, Dall’Osto will be responsible for the company’s sales of K-FLEX^® phthalate-free plasticizers, Purox^® benzoic acid and sodium benzoate, as well as benzyl alcohol and benzaldehyde, which the company manufactures in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.

Since 2008, Dall’Osto has held key leadership positions as Managing Director and President of the board of DSM Composite Resins Italy and manufacturing leader in Europe for DSM’s Composite Resin Business. Previosuly, Dall’Osto held a range of technical, operations, commercial and management positions at GE Plastics, ICI Polyurethanes, Rohm and Haas, and Tecniplast.