Adhesives Research, Inc., a developer and manufacturer of high-performance pressure-sensitive adhesives, tapes, specialty coatings, films and laminates, has promoted George Stolakis to president.

Mr. Stolakis has been with the company since 1994 and most recently held the position of vice president and general manager of the Adhesives Research division. He has also held several management positions within the company’s pharmaceutical and splicing business units including general manager, vice president and national sales manager.

As president, Mr. Stolakis will oversee the company’s Adhesives Research division, ARx, LLC and ARmark Authentication Technologies, LLC. The Adhesives Research division focuses on the timely development and manufacture of highly customized high-performance adhesives, tapes, adhesive-coated products, films and laminates for customers in the pharmaceutical, medical, electronics, pulp and paper and specialty industrial markets. ARx, LLC, is a leading component supplier/partner to the pharmaceutical industry and brings added focus and regulatory control to the design, scale-up, and manufacture of adhesive laminates and dissolvable films containing active pharmaceutical ingredients for the fast-growing drug delivery sector. ARmark Authentication Technologies, LLC provides customer-unique product authentication technologies for markets experiencing challenges with product surety and security.

Mr. Stolakis is a resident of York, PA. Prior to joining Adhesives Research, he held positions with Allied-Signal/General Chemical and Union Oil of California. He holds a bachelor’s degree in marketing from Michigan State University.