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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000084748-25-000060"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "ROG"
cik: "0000084748"
company_name: "ROGERS CORP"
filed_at: "2025-10-17T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-17T03:29:07.911158+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.5
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Rogers Corp appoints Armand Lauzon as Board Chair; adds new director with Starboard input

## Summary
- Peter Wallace will not stand for re-election at the 2026 annual meeting; steps down as Chair effective Oct 16, 2025.
- Armand F. Lauzon, Jr., independent director since 2023, appointed as Chair immediately.
- Company will add an independent director; search includes input from Starboard Value LP.
- Starboard Value confirms it will not nominate directors at the 2026 annual meeting.
- Wallace cited personal priorities; departure not due to any disagreement with company.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000084748-25-000060
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: ROG
- cik: 0000084748
- company_name: ROGERS CORP
- filed_at: 2025-10-17T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.5
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 8.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/84748/000008474825000060/0000084748-25-000060-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/84748/000008474825000060/rog-20251016.htm

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