Barry Crawford

Biography

Barry Crawford joined FMC in February, 2012, with more than 25 years of global manufacturing, supply chain, and engineering experience in the specialty chemical industry. In his new role, he has functional oversight for the global FMC Manufacturing Network, large-scale capital projects, and the company’s global supply chain. Mr. Crawford joins FMC from The Dow Chemical Company, where he most recently led manufacturing, engineering, and the technical organization for Dow Coating Materials. He began his career as a chemical engineer in the U.K. with Schering Agrochemical in 1986, and joined Rohm and Haas Company in 1988 as a production engineer at its biocides plant in Jarrow, U.K. He held various manufacturing and engineering positions of increasing responsibility at Rohm and Haas, including Ion Exchange Resins research engineer, Philadelphia Plant manager, regional operations director for the Paint and Coating Materials Division, and global operations director, responsible for manufacturing, engineering, and supply chain at more than 30 facilities around the world. He earned a bachelor of science in Chemical Engineering from the Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, Scotland, U.K.

Research Interest

Chemical Engineering