MESNAC announced the appointment of Dr. K. Mohamed Hassan as the Executive Director of their new Research and Technical Center located in Akron Ohio. In this role Dr. Hassan will lead a multi-functional engineering and technical team which will focus on specific research and development projects related to the North American market and work in collaboration with MESNAC's Research Institute based in Qingdao China. Dr. Hassan's most recent position was as Assistant Instructional Director at the University of Akron Research Foundation and College of Polymer Science and Engineering, managing the establishment of an Institute of Elastomer Technology in Saudi Arabia.