B.B. BRADLEY CO. INC. — The Painesville, Ohio, protective packaging manufacturer added Pegg Lyttle to the Painesville sales department and Shawn Johnston to the Columbus, Ohio, sales department.
INDUSTRIAS VASSALLO INC. — The Ponce, Puerto Rico, manufacturer of PVC construction products named Bruce Masden to head its new U.S.-based sales and marketing operation, Vassallo Creations. The unit is developing new products outside of Vassallo's core business.
LAVANTURE GROUP — The Elkhart, Ind., parent firm to two plastics processors and an automotive accessories distributor named Steve Fulton president. Fulton joined LaVanture in 1994 as chief financial officer and was named chief operation officer in 1998.
MIKRON INDUSTRIES INC. — The Kent, Wash., provider of PVC window designs and extruded lineals, named Grant Muller regional sales manager. Grant will assume primary responsibility with certain customers and prospects in the western United States.
OUTWATER PLASTICS INDUSTRIES INC. — Moe Kessler, founder and president of the Wood-Ridge, N.J., stocking supplier of plastic components, was awarded the first annual TSI Plastics Innovator Award at the PlastiFab/Mid-West Industrial Woodworking Show in Grand Rapids, Mich.
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James Frankland was named business unit manager for the ExtrusionTek unit of Batavia, Ohio, machinery supplier MILACRON. ... DYNEON LLC, an Oakdale, Minn., fluoropolymers producer, named John Kelly account executive for its fluorothermoplastics group. ... The PACKAGING MACHINERY MANUFACTURERS INSTITUTE, an Arlington, Va., trade association, named its executive committee officers: Bernard McPheely, of Hartness International Inc., chairman; Mel Bahr, of MGS Machine Corp., vice chairman; Robert Potdevin, of Potdevin Machine Co., past chairman; and Charles Yuska, of PMMI, president. ... Thomas Vacchiano Jr. will succeed Ronald Anderson as president and chief executive officer of GRETAG-MACBETH HOLDING AG, a Regensdorf, Switzerland, color control and management tools supplier.