DALTON, GA – MFG Chemical has promoted Barry Lassiter to VP Operations, responsible for MFG’s three plants in the Dalton, Georgia, area and the recently acquired 26.7-acre plant in Pasadena, Texas.

Lassiter came to MFG in 2014, following nearly 40 years with Dupont and Invista, to serve as Director, Environmental, Health, Safety and Security (EHS&S). Under Lassiter’s leadership, MFG has developed a safety culture throughout the company in which every employee participates and has individual responsibility. As a result, MFG has achieved an excellent safety record at its plants, has invested in employee safety and reduction of risk through significant commitment to training and equipment, is continuously recording and reporting on key safety measures, manages a safety communications program to keep the community informed, and has won several prestigious chemical industry awards for safety.

Joe Welch joined MFG earlier this year with 22 years of experience in leading EHS excellence initiatives in both the public and private sectors.  Welch has been working closely with Lassiter in EHS&S and will now take the lead as Director.

Keith Arnold, CEO of MFG Chemical and member of the SOCMA Board of Governors, commented, “Barry Lassiter has done an outstanding job of making the safety ethic an integral part of our DNA here at MFG Chemical. Thanks to his strong manufacturing, maintenance and safety background, Barry is any excellent choice for VP Operations. As VP Operations, Barry will ensure that the safety culture he has done so much to develop will continue to predominate as the core value in everything we do. As Director of EHS&S, Joe Welch will continue and build upon the safety culture MFG has set in place.”

MFG Chemical LLC is a leading specialty and custom chemical manufacturer for a variety of global markets, including agriculture, asphalt, graphic arts, lubricants, mining, oilfield, paints and coatings, personal care, pulp and paper, and water treatment. The company is headquartered in Dalton, Georgia, and operates four manufacturing facilities in Northwest Georgia and Pasadena, Texas.