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Session 22: A Case Study in the Evolution of a Manufacturing Company
10:30-11:15 am Ballroom BC
The CEO of a Fortune 500 company discusses the strategy and processes the company used to grow into new markets and geographies.
Sponsored by NABE Manufacturing Roundtable
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John P Jones, Case Study in the Evolution of a Manufacturing Company (slides)
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Speakers
John P. Jones III
CEO
Air Products
John P. Jones joined Air Products and Chemicals, Inc. in 1972 as a participant in the company's Career Development Program. Following assignments in economic evaluation, project engineering, and the process equipment division, he became business area manager of the process gas international division in 1979. In 1980 he was named director of planning for the International Coal Refining Company (ICRC)—an Air Products joint venture—and in 1981 was appointed vice president of planning for ICRC. In 1983 Jones was named manager of commercial development for Stearns Catalytic World Corporation—an Air Products wholly owned engineering services subsidiary—and in 1986 was appointed vice president of Stearns' eastern region. He became general manager of environmental systems in 1987, and vice president and general manager of Environmental and Energy Systems in 1988. In 1992 Jones was appointed group vice president for the Process Systems Group, and in 1993 was transferred to Air Products Europe where he was named president. He returned to the U.S. in June 1996 and was named executive vice president, Gases and Equipment Group. He was appointed president in October 1998, and assumed his current position in December 2000.
Jones was born in 1950 in Blakely, Pennsylvania. He received a B.S. degree in chemical engineering from Villanova University.
Jones currently serves on the board of directors of the American Chemistry Council and on the executive committee of the Society of Chemical Industry-American Section. He also serves on the board of trustees of The Rider-Pool Foundation.
