What Happened?
Woodland Park, NJ-based Cytec has Promoted Carmelo Lo Faro as Chief Technology Officer
About the Company
Cytec`s vision is to deliver specialty material and chemical technologies beyond our customers` imagination. Our focus on innovation, advanced technology and application expertise enables us to develop, manufacture and sell products that change the way our customers do business. Our pioneering products perform specific and important functions for our customers, enabling them to offer innovative solutions to the industries that they serve. Cytec`s products serve a diverse range of end markets including aerospace and industrial materials, mining and plastics. To deliver this vision, we continually look for ways to improve upon our existing business operations. Consistent with this goal, in July of 2012, Cytec acquired Umeco, an international provider of advanced composite and process materials. The subsequent integration of Umeco strengthened our core aerospace business and positioned our company to capitalize on the growth available in the high performance industrial market for advanced composites. Later that year, in December of 2012, we changed the names of the business units to more effectively communicate to customers our brand identity of delivering specialty material and chemical technologies. Our company is now comprised of four business segments: Aerospace Materials, Industrial Materials, In Process Separation and Additive Technologies. Cytec is a company that embraces growth. To further realign our portfolio, in April of 2013 we completed the sale of the Coating Resins business to Advent International. This divestiture allowed Cytec to focus on our growth platforms in the advanced materials and separation technologies businesses. As a forward-thinking, global company, we are always looking for opportunities to further distinguish Cytec from our competition.
About the Person
Carmelo Lo Faro is Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of Cytec Industries Inc. and serves as a member of Cytec’s Executive Leadership Team. Carmelo began his career as a Research Scientist with ICI, where he developed advanced composite materials. He joined Cytec in 2001. Since then, he has held positions of increasing responsibility including Senior Research Scientist, Applications Engineer, Product Development Manager, Technology Director and VP of Technology while living in Europe and in the United States. Throughout his career, Carmelo has been instrumental in introducing innovative materials and processes on multiple aerospace, defense and automotive programs. He has also developed and executed several strategic partnerships with customers, suppliers and the academic community. Carmelo holds a Doctorate of Science degree in Material Science and a Master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from Catania University and an MBA from Arizona State University.
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