Specialty chemicals manufacturer Sartomer Co. (Exton, Pa.) has named Dr. Luigi Colantuoni as president, replacing the retiring Nicholas Trainer … Stephanie Carter is the new North American infrastructure market manager for Ashland Composite Polymers (Dublin, Ohio) … Reinforcements firm Formax’s (Narborough, U.K) new sales/marketing director is Martin Spooner, previously with Saint-Gobain Technical Fabrics (Paris, France) … John Kirchstein is Interplastic Corp.’s (St. Paul, Minn.) new transportation manager … Long-time Ashland ad man Bob York has started his own business-to-business firm, York Marketing Communications LLC (Marysville, Ohio) … KaZaK Composites (Woburn, Mass.) has appointed Dr. Brian J. Smith to the post of director of engineering.