WILMINGTON, Del. (Feb. 7) — Jane E. Austin, global business director for chloroelastomers at DuPont Performance Elastomers L.L.C., has been elected 2006 chairperson of the Society of the Plastics Industry.
Austin has been active in the SPI leadership for the past seven years, serving as treasurer, board member and member of the association´s finance committee, according to a DPE press release. Austin joined DuPont in 1982 as a process engineer in the textile fibers department, and was promoted to her current position in 2003.