Sika Region NA Automotive recently announced two personnel promotions. Jonathan Hatch has been promoted to the position of EHS engineer for Grandview Operations, reporting to Cedric Gray, vice president of Operations. Hatch joined Sika Corp. in 2012 as a process engineer and, since October 2013 has been working as an EHS engineer and Robotics Systems engineer. Hatch will now be solely focused on his role as EHS engineer and facilitating the Grandview Operations Environmental Health and Safety program, as well as incident prevention and the ISO 14001 program.

Jonathan Watson has been promoted to the position of director of Manufacturing, also reporting to Gray. Watson joined Sika Corp. in 2007 as a Plant Quality manager, and held additional roles including Operations manager during his time at Sika. Watson will be focused on SikaPower® technology and will be responsible for injection molding, extrusion, compounding, and SikaPower manufacturing.