ASTM International Committee D11 on Rubber has named D. Thomas Marsh, president of Centrotrade Minerals and Metals Inc. in Chesapeake, Va., as its new chairman. Committee D11 has a membership of approximately 340 technical experts who oversee 222 ASTM International standards for rubber, rubber products, and systems and services appropriate to rubber technology.

An ASTM International member since 1990, Marsh has served on the ASTM board of directors since 2011 and is currently the 2014 chairman of the Finance and Audit committee. He works on Committee F23 on Personal Protective Clothing and Equipment in addition to D11, and is a past member of the ASTM Committee on Technical Committee Operations (COTCO).

Marsh began his career as a technician for General Latex and Chemical Corp. in Ashland, Ohio, and then worked as a latex chemist for Abbott Laboratories from 1981 to 1987. He became laboratory and technical services manager for Ansell Inc. in Troy, Ala., and then president of the Ore and Chemical Corp. in Virginia Beach, Va., where he managed daily operations and implemented ASTM testing for natural rubber and latex. He was vice president of Microflex Corp., Reno, Nev., before joining Centrotrade, a distributor of and technical advisory company for rubber, latex and chemicals, in 1999.

In addition to ASTM International, Marsh is a member of the American Chemical Society, the American Management Association, the Ohio Rubber Group and the Rubber Trade Association of North America, where he is a member of the board of directors and a past president. He is also a U.S. voting delegate to Technical Committee 45 for Rubber and Rubber Goods of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and served a term on the board of directors of Vystar Corp. from 2012 to 2013.

Marsh holds a general sciences degree from the Ohio State University and a bachelor’s degree in business management from Liberty University, Lynchburg, Va.

ASTM PR Contact: Erin K. Brennan, Phone: 610-832-9602; ebrennan@astm.org

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