Eastman Chemical made a 3 percent cut in the pay of most of its 15,000 employees.
For Eastman Chemical, the crisis blows fair and foul.
Eastman Chemical became a Fortune 500 company in its own right.
Hamilton also worked in Amsterdam for 7 years during which time he was employed with Eastman Chemical.
Solutia was in 2012 acquired by the Eastman Chemical.
ShipCom recently became an independent company after it was divested by Eastman Chemical.
Because the new team structure makes it difficult to evaluate individual performance, Eastman Chemical is likely to adopt a system of peer review.
At Eastman Chemical, they devised a plastic packaging that could more than double the shelf life of beer and soda.
That attracted the interest of Eastman Chemical, which provided a raw material that proved more effective than the original.
Eastman Chemical left the sorbates market in 2000, she said.