DuPont appoints new VP & GM for Water Solutions business

DuPont has named Jeroen Bloemhard as Global Vice President and General Manager of its Water Solutions business unit.

Bloemhard comes to this role with nearly 30 years of business and commercial leadership experience in multi-industrial companies, including DuPont, Celanese, and Dow Corning. He has led businesses across the world and has resided in Asia, Europe and North America.

“Water Solutions is a key market pillar of DuPont’s innovation and growth strategy, aligned to helping our customers address the domestic and industrial water needs of a growing global population,” said Leland Weaver, president of Water & Protection for DuPont. “With Jeroen’s proven and purpose-driven leadership and his team’s unique expertise in water, I am confident that DuPont will continue to advance the most sustainable water technologies to deliver customer, business, and societal value.”

“I’m proud and excited to lead DuPont Water Solutions – a team that continues to advance more sustainable purification, conservation and reuse of water and other valuable resources for customers around the world,” said Bloemhard. “I look forward to working with my new colleagues, customers, and collaborators to help contribute solutions to some of society’s most pressing challenges – increasing our collective opportunity to access clean water and sanitation, advance industrial water reuse, produce healthier foods and medicines, and uncover cleaner sources of energy.”

DuPont’s water technologies include reverse osmosis (RO) membranes, ion exchange resins (IEX), ultrafiltration (UF), electrodeionization (EDI), nanofiltration (NF), membrane bioreactor systems (MBR), membrane aerated biofilm reactors (MABR), and closed-circuit reverse osmosis (CCRO) systems.