Hydromer, Inc. announced that the Company's Board of Directors appointed Peter M. von Dyck as Chief Executive Officer and President effective upon the retirement from those roles by Manfred F. Dyck, effective September 14, 2018. Peter M. von Dyck, recently re-joined Hydromer, Inc. as the Chief Strategy and Business Development Officer in October 2017 with a rejuvenation plan for the Company, a globally renowned and trusted organization. Peter worked for the Hydromer companies for several years in the mid-1990s but was then recruited by a multi-billion-dollar pharmaceutical company where he worked in a global sales and marketing capacity before founding his own high technology companies as CEO in 1997 and 2006.

Outgoing CEO Manfred F. Dyck will continue to leverage his tremendous grasp of innovative chemistry and polymer design and remain with the Company as Chairman of the Board and Executive Vice President of R&D, which he has been the visionary for the past four decades since and prior to the establishment of Hydromer.