Tredegar Corp. announced that it has increased the size of its Board of Directors from 10 to 12 and appointed three new independent directors: Kenneth R. Newsome, Gregory A. Pratt, and Carl E. Tack, III. Tredegar director, Austin Brockenbrough, III, who has served on the Tredegar Board since 1993, will retire from the Board upon the expiration of his current term at the 2014 Annual Meeting.

Kenneth R. Newsome currently serves as Chief Executive Officer and President of AMF Bakery Systems. In addition, Mr. Newsome currently serves as Chief Executive Officer of Ceres Companies. Prior to these roles, and from 1992 to 1996, Mr. Newsome was the Chief Operating Officer of Isolyser Company. Gregory A. Pratt has nearly two decades of manufacturing and distribution experience in the steel and technology industries.

Currently, Mr. Pratt serves as the non-executive Chairman of the Carpenter Technology Corporation. Mr. Pratt served as Chairman, Interim CEO and President of Carpenter from September 2009 to July 2010. From 1998 to 2002, Mr. Pratt held the position of President and Chief Executive Officer of OAO Technology Solutions.

In addition, Mr. Pratt has served as Chapter Chairman of the National Association of Corporate Directors since. Carl E. Tack, III is currently a Visiting Professor for the Marshall Wythe School of Law and an Adjunct Professor for the Mason School of Business at the College of William & Mary. Prior to his position at the College, Mr. Tack served as a lecturer at the London Business School from 2010 to 2013.