ENTEGRIS INC. — The Chaska, Minn.-based critical-materials management company has named Michael Wright senior vice president of corporate marketing. Entegris products include wafer carriers molded from perfluoroalkoxy and polyetheretherketone. FIBERNETICS MOLDED PRODUCTS LLC — The Compton, Calif.-based thermoformer has named Doug Bruce vice president of sales and marketing, Ken Eilers vice president of finance, Aubrey Franklin vice president of operations and Jerry Hornik vice president of research and development. All are newly created positions and are promotions from director-level positions.
LEAR CORP. — The Tier 1 supplier of automotive interiors has named Cynthia Henderson vice president, quality for the Ford Division. Henderson will oversee all aspects of quality, delivery and warranty related to Lear's Ford business. She joined Southfield, Mich.-based Lear in May as director of global supplier development.
3M AUTOMOTIVE DIVISION — Francis Loftus is the new business director of the 3M Automotive Innovation Center in Livonia, Mich. He formerly was DaimlerChrysler account director for the center, a unit of St. Paul, Minn.-based 3M Automotive. The division is a Tier 1, 2 and 3 supplier to the automotive industry.
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HONEYWELL INC. of Morristown, N.J., has named Richard Preziotti vice president of business development for its Specialty Chemicals business. ... CHEMATCH.COM, a Houston-based online chemical trading system, has named Victor Chow executive director, North Asia region. ... Cleveland's FERRO CORP. has named M. Craig Benson worldwide business director of its Electronic Materials business unit. ... WESTLAKE GROUP OF COS. has named Warren Wilder vice president, planning and business development. Westlake is a manufacturer of petrochemicals, polymers and fabricated products based in Houston. ... TOSHIBA MACHINE CO. AMERICA, an Elk Grove Village, Ill.-based machinery maker, has named John Nelson sales manager with responsibility for the Midwest and West, and continuing responsibility for sales in the Northwest. Tony Codet was named area sales manager in Ontario, Calif., with responsibility for Northern California and parts of Southern California. ... Philadelphia-based specialty chemicals manufacturer ROHM AND HAAS CO. has named Humberto Goldoni senior market manager for the building and construction segment of the Plastics Additives business and Frank Oliveri North American region business manager, also for Plastics Additives. ... THERMOFORMER PARTS SUPPLIER INC., a Beaverton, Mich., supplier of thermoformer parts, has named Brad Moore director of marketing. ... Matthews, N.C.-based gear pump manufacturer MAAG PUMP SYSTEMS TEXTRON INC. has named Larry French industrial market manager and Tom Warling manufacturing manager. ... Cleveland's M.A. HANNA CO. has named Garth Henry executive vice president of worldwide plastics and international operations and Michael Rademacher vice president of plastics for the Americas. Craig Stambaugh, president of the Harwick Chemical Manufacturing business unit, will retire in September. Art Fritts, Harwick's director of sales, marketing and technical, has been named general manager of the Harwick business team. ... JLM MARKETING INC. of Tampa, Fla., has named Jeffrey Ulbrich director, engineered resins. JLM specializes in selling bulk liquid solvents and imported specialty chemicals. ... POLYMER TECHNOLOGY & SERVICES LLC, a Nashville-based resin distributor, has named Gary Weiler technical service manager. ... CIT GROUP/ EQUIPMENT FINANCING has named Donal Ratigan president of its National Industrial Equipment Financing division in Atlanta.