ALUSUISSE COMPOSITES INC. — John Butler III has assumed sales responsibilities for the St. Louis-based sheet manufacturer's creative sheet materials in Missouri, Kansas, Iowa, Nebraska, Iowa and North and South Dakota. He also will continue as sales manager for Airex mats. Butler had been corporate marketing manager. The company is a unit of Alusuisse-Lonza Group Ltd. of Zurich, Switzerland. AMERICAN PLASTICS COUNCIL — Peter McHugh will join the Arlington, Va.-based trade group as managing counsel. He had been a lawyer for the Chemical Manufacturers Association, also in Arlington .
BESPAK INC. — The Cary, N.C.-based drug delivery device manufacturer has named Thomas Addison vice president of human resources and organizational development. He had been global operations manager for DuPont Dow Elastomers.
COLLINS & AIKMAN CORP. — The Troy, Mich.-based company's Automotive Interior Systems Division has named Millard King Jr. chief operating officer of U.S. Carpet and Acoustics and Accessory Mats. He had been the division's senior vice president of operations. Hal Rogers has been named vice president of operations for U.S. Carpet Fabrication. He had been director of manufacturing for Collins & Aikman's plant in Greenville, S.C.
HEYWOOD WILLIAMS GROUP PLC — Michael Broadhead has resigned as chief executive of the Huddersfield, England-based profile extruder and building products group after 25 years with the company. This follows the resignation of finance director Terence Martin. Heywood Williams Chairman Hamish Bryce has assumed the role of acting chief executive until a replacement is found for Broadhead, while Laurence Campbell has taken over as finance director.
RICHCO INC. — The Chicago-based molder and extruder of plastic components has named Rick Streicher president. He had been vice president of Sealing Systems, Visibility and Systems Protection Products for Federal-Mogul Corp.
TI GROUP PLC — James Roe, a director and former head of strategic development at the London-based automotive and specialty industrial polymer products company, has retired after 21 years at TI.
THOMPSON PLASTICS (HULL) LTD. — The industrial, agricultural, specialty and off-road vehicle component molder, based in Hull, England, has announced three senior appointments: Steve Parkinson, has been named group director responsible for Thompson's Hull-based vehicle industry division, which supplies exterior parts for agricultural and off-road vehicles. John Watkins joins the board as group technical director, responsible for process and product development. Bill McKeown, former head of Thompson's touring caravan division, has become director and general manager of the group's automotive polyurethane foam and moldings subsidiary, Borderfoam Ltd. of Ludlow, England.
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PROGRESSIVE COMPONENTS INC., a mold components maker in Wauconda, Ill., has named Matt Kallas Midwest regional sales coordinator. ... BORDEN CHEMICALS AND PLASTICS LP, a Columbus, Ohio, PVC producer, has named James Stevning vice president, chief financial officer and treasurer, effective May 1. ... Machinery supplier MILACRON INC. of Cincinnati has named Michael Sargent manager of its new Applied Technologies business, and Robert Grumski manager of its new Process Support business. ... D-M-E CO. a unit of Milacron Inc. in Madison Heights, Mich., has named John Schmidt and Tom Halpin hot-runner specialists, and Donald Muncy and Lisa Delicato sales representatives. ... KRONES INC. of Franklin, Wis., has named Bernhard Baumgartner president and chief executive officer, succeeding Rudolph Zeus who retired. Ronald Wallner has been named vice president and chief operating officer, and Heinz Sommer has been named chief financial officer. In addition, the company has named four new division managers: John Matusinec, Systems Technology; Dave Niemuth, Labeling Technology; Steve Peter, Filling and Cleaning Technology; and George Mankos, Blow Molding Technology. ... TACONIC, an engineered composites supplier in Petersburgh, N.Y., has named Jim O'Keefe president. ... PARATHERM CORP., a Conshohocken, Pa., manufacturer of heat-transfer fluids, has named Jim Oetinger a sales manager. ... TEKNOR APEX CO., a Pawtucket, R.I.-based compounder, has named John Politis business director — Uniprene for its Plastics Group and Bing-Lin Lee a senior research associate in its research and development group. ... PLASTICOLORS INC., a manufacturer of pigment and chemical dispersion systems in Ashtabula, Ohio, has named Steve Walling chairman. He also retains his responsibilities as president and chief executive officer. He replaces Plasticolors founder Bey Blanchard, who retired as chairman and continues as a board member. ... CHEMATCH.COM, a Houston-based online chemical trading system, has established an office in Tokyo and named Mike [email protected]@Volume: 12
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