Scapa Group plc announced that David Blackwood has been appointed to the Board as an independent Non-Executive Director. He will join the Board on 1 May 2016 and chair the Audit and Risk Committee from 1 June 2016. Mr. Blackwood is a Non-Executive Director of Dignity Plc and was previously Group Finance Director of Synthomer plc, a position from which he retired in May 2015.

Prior to that, he was Group Treasurer at Imperial Chemical Industries plc and held a number of senior positions with ICI over a period of 22 years. As a Non-Executive Director of Scapa, Mr. Blackwood will sit on the company's Remuneration Committee and Nominations Committee. The company also announced that Mike Buzzacott will retire from his role as Non-Executive Director and Chairman of the Audit and Risk Committee on 30 May 2016.