APPLIED MARKET INFORMATION LTD. - The Bristol, England, plastics market research and consulting company named John Jones president of Reading, Pa.-based Applied Market Information LLC, AMI's new North American business unit.
CASCADE ENGINEERING - Scott Gallagher was named plant manager for the home and office group of the Grand Rapids, Mich.-based injection molder for the automotive, furniture and container industries. Gallagher previously was a senior front-line leader in the automotive trim solutions group.
CCL INDUSTRIES INC. - The Toronto developer of manufacturing, packaging and labeling solutions for the consumer products industry named Gene Dorsch president of the plastic packaging division.
CHELSEA BUILDING PRODUCTS INC. - G. Christopher Mathews was named senior vice president of sales and marketing for the Oakmont, Pa., designer and extruder of rigid vinyl and composite extrusions for windows, doors and other building products.
MACFARLANE GROUP PLC - Graham Casey was appointed managing director of Macfarlane Packaging, the division that includes the group's U.S. polystyrene foam padding firm, Macfarlane Western Foam Inc. of Hayward, Calif. Casey formerly was chief executive of Glasgow, Scotland-based Macfarlane's labels business, which was absorbed into the new packaging division.
NOVA CHEMICALS CORP. - The Pittsburgh commodity chemical company named Grant Thomson vice president of sales for its polyethylene polymers business, Ronald Hornack vice president and general manager for automotive, and John Siegrist vice president for its styrenics polymers business.
PETCORE - The European PET recycling association has appointed Frank Koelewijn to take over as its director general in place of Henk Hansler. Koelewijn was director of European regulatory affairs at Kimberly-Clark for the past five years and previously set up the company's European environmental office. He was chairman of the environment committee of the American Chamber of Commerce in Belgium. His first major task is to oversee Petcore's move from its present base in Haarlem, Netherlands, to Brussels, Belgium, before the end of the year.
PHOENIX CLOSURES INC. - Tim Ferrel was named vice president of sales for the Naperville, Ill.-based closure manufacturing firm. Ferrel joined Phoenix in 1994 as Midwest region sales manager.
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* New Albany, Ind.-based CONFORMA CLAD, a materials technology and specializing manufacturing company, named Mike Harlan president and chief operating officer and Rick Horan, who will continue as chief executive officer, chairman. ... Steve Hurd was named national sales manager for SWD URETHANE CO., a Phoenix-based manufacturer of polyurethane foam systems, polyols and specialty coatings. ... Exton, Pa.-headquartered LNP ENGINEERING PLASTICS INC., a custom compounder of engineering thermoplastics, named Stephen Thompson global disk-drive industry leader. ... Farnum J. Pollard Jr. was named sales manager based in Ohio for MUEHLSTEIN COMPOUNDED PRODUCTS, a Houston designer and compounder of polyethylene and polypropylene.