Manufacturing Industry

William Patient retires - again.(News)(PolyOne Corp.'s William Patient retires again)(Brief article)

Plastics News, May, 2006

Byline: Frank Esposito PolyOne Corp.'s William Patient has retired for the second time in the past seven years. Patient retired from the board of directors at its May 25 annual meeting in Cleveland. He had served as lead director since February, when Stephen Newlin was named chairman, president and chief executive officer of Avon Lake, Ohio-based PolyOne, North America's largest compounder.

Patient, 72, originally retired from PolyOne predecessor Geon Co. in 1999, one year before Geon merged with M.A. Hanna Co. to form PolyOne. In 2003, Patient made an unexpected return to PolyOne as nonexecutive chairman. Patient's role was to work with PolyOne CEO Thomas Waltermire in an attempt to revive the struggling company. At the time, PolyOne was in its third...

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