Philadelphia-based Rohm and Haas, whose research laboratories are in Spring House, Pa., is a specialty chemical company that orients its basic and applied investigative facilities toward products for industrial consumers. Major focuses of the company are on agricultural chemicals, adhesives, electronic chemicals, plastics, and petroleum additives. Lamola will head the two research divisions concerned with new chemical and plastic technologies.
Shortly after receiving his Ph.D. in organic chemistry from the California Institute of Technology in 1964, Lamola joined Bell Laboratories. He stayed at the Murray Hill, N.J.-based company until 1985, when he left to join Polaroid Corp. in Cambridge, Mass., as the director of chemicals and materials research.
After a three-year stint at Polaroid, Lamola moved to the Shipley Co., a small electronic chemical firm based in Newton, Mass., that primarily produces components for the semiconductor and printed circuit board industries.
Three months ago, Rohm and Haas acquired 100 percent ...
