Chairman, longtime CEO of Sequa Corp. dies
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Norman E. Alexander, founder and CEO of Sequa Corp. for half a century, died Dec. 26 at the age of 92. He lived in Scarsdale.
Sequa, based in Manhattan, is a global conglomerate whose businesses produce everything from automobile airbags and aerospace equipment to tuxedos and bleach activators to boost the cleaning power of detergent. The company’s largest subsidiary is Chromalloy Gas Turbine Corp., whose New York division, based in Orangeburg, repairs jet engine parts for the airline industry. Alexander bought Chromalloy in 1986.
Born in the Bronx, Alexander graduated from Morris High School, Columbia University and Columbia Law School. In 1954, he bought Ampacet Corp., then a small plastics recycler, and led the company to become a global producer of color additives for plastics with North American headquarters in Tarrytown.
Alexander stepped down as Sequa’s chief executive in 2005 but stayed on as executive chairman until his death.
He was a member of Temple Kol Ami in White Plains, a governor of the American Jewish Committee and a trustee of the Jewish Museum in Manhattan. He is survived by his wife, Marjorie; their son, Dr. Mark Alexander, and daughters Gail A. Binderman, Sharon A. Zoffness and Leslie Alexander; a brother, Alex Alexander; and five grandchildren: Daniel and Deborah Binderman and Rachel, Courtney and Benjamin Zoffness.
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