Rosier appointed president of Solvay Acetow

Solvay Acetow, a leading global producer of cellulose acetate tow for cigarette filters, has appointed Philippe Rosier as the company’s new president. Rosier succeeded Olivier Ferrary at the end of March.

Rosier began his career in the Solvay Group in 1988, serving as project manager at Acetow’s production plant in Primester, United States. In 1996 he became the strategy and business development director of Acetow, and from 1999 on, he served as general manager of various activities in plastics and energy within the Solvay Group. Rosier became president of the Global Business Unit Solvay Energy Services in 2012.

“Having known Solvay Acetow for many years, I am very pleased to take over the responsibility as president of this company that has been impressively dynamic and innovative within the past years,” said Rosier.

“What makes Solvay Acetow unique and strong are our highly-skilled and motivated employees. Solvay Acetow’s sales, technical and marketing team will further increase their efforts to deepen our customer satisfaction and intimacy by improving product and service quality as well as supply chain and manufacturing excellence.”