LSB Industries Inc. announced that Richard Aldridge has been appointed Chief Operating Office of the Company's Climate Control Business. In his new role, Mr. Aldridge will assume executive management responsibility of LSB's Climate Control Business. Mr. Aldridge previously served as President of LSB's ClimateMaster Inc. subsidiary and before that was Vice President of Operations for the Climate Control Business.

Over the 25 years prior to joining LSB, Mr. Aldridge built his capabilities in senior leadership and general management in positions of increasing responsibility at world class companies such as Trane, American Standard, General Electric and Ingersoll-Rand where he led organizational transformations and significant business process improvements in sales, marketing, engineering, operations and quality assurance.