CEO of Rohm and Haas receives Chemical Industry Medal

16/01/2007

The Society of Chemical Industry (SCI), American Section, is to award the 2007 Chemical Industry Medal to chairman, president and CEO of Rohm and Haas Company, Raj Gupta, at a ceremony to be held in New York, on March 8.

The medal is awarded annually for ‘contributions toward the growth of the chemical industry’.

Throughout his 35-year career with the company, during which he has worked on three continents, Mr Gupta has helped to transform Rohm and Haas into a global leader which generates revenues of $8 billion a year, producing and selling specialty materials on six continents. 

Mr Gupta is currently a director of Tyco International Ltd. and the Vanguard Group. He has also served as a past chairman of the American Chemistry Council, the International Council of Chemical Associations, and the Society of Chemical Industry, American Section.