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• The Massachusetts Petroleum Council (MPC) division of API has announced Elisabeth Treseder as associate director. API also appointed Peter Langley as the new executive director of API-Michigan.

  Luis Eugenio Ponce Lerou, brother of owner and former chairman Julio Ponce Lerou, has been appointed president of SQM. Joanne Boyes, Gonzalo Guerrero, Robert Kirkpatrick, Hans Dieter Linneberg, Arnfinn Prugger, Julio Rebolledo and Edward Waitzer were all appointed new directors of the company.

  PotashCorp has announced the election of 13 directors by shareholders; Christopher Burley, Donald Chynoweth, John Estey, Gerald Grandey, C. Steven Hoffman, Alice Laberge, Consuelo Madere, Keith Martell, Jeffrey McCaig, Aaron Regent, Jochen Til k, Elena Viyella de Paliza and Zoe Yujnovich.