Rayonier Advanced Materials appoints Thomas Benner as Senior Vice President, Commercial, effective October 6. He will lead the sales and marketing, strategic sourcing and R&D departments of company's Performance Fibers business.

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Rayonier Advanced Materials appoints Thomas Benner as Senior Vice President, Commercial

Sep 16, 2014. /Lesprom Network/. Rayonier Advanced Materials appoints Thomas Benner as Senior Vice President, Commercial, effective October 6, as the company said in the press release received by Lesprom Network. 

He will lead the sales and marketing, strategic sourcing and R&D departments of company's Performance Fibers business.

"I'm confident that Tom's knowledge and focus on the commercial aspects of our business will help us maximize the value we deliver to our stockholders,” stated Paul Boynton, Chairman, President and CEO of Rayonier Advanced Materials. “His sales, marketing and strategic sourcing background coupled with his chemical industry experience will help us grow our Performance Fibers business as we work to further develop differentiated products, continue to improve upon our history of excellent customer support and place our installed capacity into the market.”

“I’m excited to join Rayonier Advanced Materials at this remarkable point in the company’s long history,” said Benner. “With their global leadership position, incremental capacity and growing demand for their products, Rayonier Advanced Materials has a great future. I look forward to helping the company continue building value for its stockholders.”

Rayonier Advanced Materials is the leading global supplier of high-purity, cellulose specialties products, a natural polymer for the chemical industry. The company’s facilities can produce up to 675,000 metric tons of cellulose specialties products for use in a wide range of industrial and consumer products such as filters, cosmetics and pharmaceuticals.