Fontenot is featured among company’s leaders

A new book detailing the history of Swiss-based Geigy/Ciba-Geigy Corporation features a retired employee from Mamou. Martin Fontenot began working for the company in 1971, a year after the company expanded to St. Gabriel. The manufacturing facility in St. Gabriel was built to produce triazine herbicides. “I was hired as a chemist,” Fontenot said. “Then, I got my master’s degree in chemistry, and…