Materion Corporation (NYSE:MTRN) announced today that Clive A. Grannum has joined the Company as President, Performance Alloys and Composites, one of three reportable business segments. He reports to Jugal Vijayvargiya, President and Chief Executive Officer and is based in Mayfield Heights.

Mr. Grannum brings nearly 30 years’ experience building high-performing organizations within global specialty chemicals industry leaders, including Olin Corporation, Dow Chemical, Rohm and Haas, The ICI Group and The BOC Group. He has a strong track record of results across the Americas, Europe, Latin America and Asia leading transformational change, global portfolio management, mergers and acquisitions, organic growth and operational excellence.

Most recently, Clive was President of Olin’s Global Chlorinated Organics business, the world’s largest chlorinated organics enterprise. Prior to Olin, he served as President, Global Chlorinated Organics at The Dow Chemical Company. Clive joined Dow Chemical in 2009 as part of its acquisition of Rohm & Haas and, following the acquisition, retained leadership of the global Plastics Additives business. He also held several roles of increasing responsibility at The BOC Group and The ICI Group with his last role being Vice President of ICI and Senior Vice President, Uniqema Americas.

Clive earned a Bachelor of Science degree in aerospace engineering from Boston University and an MBA from Yale University.

Commenting on the appointment, Mr. Vijayvargiya said, “We are excited to have Clive join Materion. With his track record of delivering strong results across the globe leading transformational change, organic and inorganic growth and operational excellence, Clive is especially well suited to lead this important business moving forward. His appointment, along with the earlier-announced newly created positions of Vice President, Global Operations and Vice President, Commercial Excellence, builds on our cadre of leadership talent toward achieving a sustained level of future profitable growth.”

About Materion:

Materion Corporation is headquartered in Mayfield Heights, Ohio. The Company, through its wholly owned subsidiaries, supplies highly engineered advanced enabling materials to global markets. Our unique product portfolio includes high performance alloys, beryllium products, clad metal strip, composite metals, ceramics, inorganic chemicals, microelectronics packaging materials, precision optics, thin film coatings and thin film deposition materials.

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