CURRENT REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
Date of report (Date of earliest event reported): January 14, 2022
FUTUREFUEL CORP. (Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Its Charter)
Delaware
(State or Other Jurisdiction of Incorporation)
0-52577
20-3340900
(Commission File Number)
(IRS Employer Identification No.)
8235 Forsyth Blvd., Suite 400 St. Louis, Missouri63105 (Address of Principal Executive Offices)
(314) 854-8352 (Registrant’s Telephone Number)
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Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:
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Common Stock
FF
NYSE
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Item 8.01 – Other Events
On January 14, 2022, the Board of Directors of FutureFuel Corp. (the “Company”) appointed Charles W. Lyon as its Senior Vice President of Strategy and Planning. Mr. Lyon was previously hired as Senior Vice President of Strategy and Planning at FutureFuel Chemical Company, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Company, on September 7, 2021. In his new capacity, Mr. Lyon will lead the Company in sales, marketing, and technology and develop and implement a business growth strategy for custom chemicals, specialty chemicals, and biodiesel products. Mr. Lyon is a global business executive with over 25 years of international business experience in over 30 countries in the industrial chemical and specialty chemical industries. He has extensive experience in establishing and growing specialty chemicals businesses, especially in the Americas and Asia Pacific regions.
Prior to joining FutureFuel Chemical Company, Mr. Lyon was employed by Prefere Melamines, a unit of Prefere Resins, where he was Business Director for the Americas and Asia. Prior to Prefere, and for fifteen years, he was Business Director, Americas and Asia, for INEOS Melamines, a unit of INEOS. There, he was highly engaged in leading business growth in Asia and established the business’s first commercial entity in Singapore. He also served as Director at INEOS Melamines, and established the business’s first manufacturing capability in the region with a strategic alliance in Indonesia. Before that, Mr. Lyon served as a regional and global business manager for the Specialty Resins business of UCB and Solutia Inc., where he was responsible for implementing growth strategies for products serving the automotive OEM and other high-performance coatings markets. Mr. Lyon started his career with Monsanto Company, and held management positions in engineering, manufacturing, and global product management serving numerous specialty market segments including detergents, tire and rubber chemicals, pharma intermediates, and agricultural products.
Mr. Lyon received a BS in Chemical Engineering and a MS in Engineering Management, both from the University of Missouri in Rolla (now Missouri University of Science and Technology).
On January 20, 2022, the Company issued a press release regarding the appointment of Mr. Lyon, a copy of which is attached hereto as Exhibit 99.1.
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SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.
