Tronox Stockholders Elect Directors and Approve Ernst & Young LLP as Company's Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm
15 May 2008 - 6:00AM
PR Newswire (US)
OKLAHOMA CITY, May 14 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Stockholders of
Tronox Incorporated (NYSE: TRX; TRX.B) elected David G. Birney and
Bradley C. Richardson to the company's board of directors during
Tronox's Annual Meeting of Stockholders today. Stockholders also
ratified the appointment of Ernst & Young LLP as the company's
independent registered public accounting firm. Birney, 64, and
Richardson, 49, will serve three-year terms that expire at the 2011
Annual Meeting of Stockholders. Birney, who retired as president
and chief executive officer of Solvay America, Inc. in 2006, has
served as a director since 2006. He joined Solvay in 1978 and held
positions of increasing responsibility, including global strategic
manager of plastics in Brussels; president of Solvay Polymers Inc.;
and chief executive officer of Solvay Chemicals. Birney also serves
as a director of A. Schulman, Inc. Richardson, who has served as a
director since 2005, is executive vice president - corporate
strategy and chief financial officer of Modine Manufacturing Co. He
joined Modine in 2003 as vice president finance and chief financial
officer. In 2006, he was promoted to executive vice president
finance and chief financial officer, and he was named to his
current position in April 2008. His previous experience includes
serving as chief financial officer and vice president of
performance management and control for the Worldwide Exploration
and Production division at BP Amoco (now known as BP). Richardson
is also a director of Brady Corporation. Headquartered in Oklahoma
City, Tronox is the world's third-largest producer and marketer of
titanium dioxide pigment, with an annual production capacity of
642,000 tonnes. Titanium dioxide pigment is an inorganic white
pigment used in paint, coatings, plastics, paper and many other
everyday products. The company's five pigment plants, which are
located in the United States, Australia, Germany and the
Netherlands, supply high-performance products to approximately
1,100 customers in 100 countries. In addition, Tronox produces
electrolytic products, including sodium chlorate, electrolytic
manganese dioxide, boron trichloride, elemental boron and lithium
manganese oxide. For information on Tronox, visit
http://www.tronox.com/. Media Contact: Debbie Schramm Direct:
405-775-5177 Cell: 405-830-6937 Investor Contact: Robert Gibney
Direct: 405-775-5105
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CONTACT: media, Debbie Schramm, +1-405-775-5177, cell,
+1-405-830-6937, , or investors, Robert Gibney, +1-405-775-5105, ,
both of Tronox Incorporated Web site: http://www.tronox.com/
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