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    AMERICAN CHEMISTRY COUNCIL - The Arlington, Va., trade group named William Ichord managing director of global affairs.

    AMERICAN COMPOSITES MANUFACTURERS ASSOCIATION - Missy Henriksen is stepping down as executive director of the Arlington, Va., trade group to pursue personal interests. No replacement has been announced yet.

    BRAMPTON ENGINEERING INC. - The maker of blown film equipment in Brampton, Ontario, named Jim Stobie vice president of sales.

    CHEVRON PHILLIPS CHEMICAL CO. LLC - The resin supplier in The Woodlands, Texas, named Raymond Wilcox chief executive officer and president, effective April 1.

    CHICAGO ME- TALLIC PRODUCTS INC. - The packaging maker in Lake Zurich, Ill., named Rick Barton vice president of sales and Tim Carrigan sales director for its CM Packaging division.

    CONAIR GROUP INC. - The equipment maker in Pittsburgh named Gene Flockerzi vice president of sales.

    DUPONT CO. - The resin supplier in Wilmington, Del., named Francine Shaw chief executive officer and president of its performance elastomers division, succeeding John Lewis, who will retire April 1 after 40 years with the company.

    EXTRUSION AUXILIARY SERVICES INC. - The equipment consulting firm in Atlanta named Lee Ford senior process consultant, coordinating its new extrusion process consulting services program.

    FABRI-KAL CORP. - The thermoformer in Kalamazoo, Mich., named Mike Roeder chief operating officer and president.

    FORTUNE PLASTICS INC. - The film maker in Old Saybrook, Conn., named Ron Shaw general manager of its western division.

    FREEMAN CO. - The machinery, tooling and die maker in Erlanger, Ky., named Greg DeFisher chief executive officer, succeeding Louis G. Freeman III, who will remain with the company contributing to special projects and consulting.

    HOME PRODUCTS INTERNATIONAL INC. - The injection molder in Chicago named Park Owens executive vice president of sales and marketing.

    KEY PLASTICS LLC - The injection molder in Farmington Hills, Mich., named David Roys president and chief operating officer, Joe Valentino vice president of operations, Mark Hagan vice president of sales and marketing, Ralph Ralston engineering director and Phil Crossman quality director.

    MACK MOLDING CO. - The injection molder in Arlington, Vt., named Randy Pell senior staff engineer and Craig Pine program engineer.

    MAINE PLASTICS INC. - The recycler in North Chicago, Ill., named Brennan Giersch sales representative and Norm Reynolds manager of the firm's Schoolcraft, Mich., facility.

    OWENS CORNING - The Toledo, Ohio, building products maker said Dale Kleist, Russell Slayter and John Thomas - three of its innovators from the 1930s - will be inducted posthumously into the National Inventors Hall of Fame on May 5 in Akron, Ohio.

    RESOURCE RECYCLING SYSTEMS INC. - The Smithfield, R.I., recycling equipment manufacturer and subsidiary of Herbold Meckesheim GmbH of Meckesheim, Germany, named Stephen Montalto national sales manager.

    STEP2 CO. - The Streetsboro, Ohio, rotational molder named Bill McCallum vice president of sales and marketing and Andrew Hauptner vice president of product development/sourcing. Allen Kannapell, senior vice president of sales and marketing, has retired.

    Briefly ...

    ASCON CORP., a process controls maker in Batavia, Ill., named Davide Bugatti North American technical services manager. ... COMPOSITES ONE LLC, a materials distributor in Arlington Heights, Ill., named Tom Hanna southern technical sales representative, succeeding Mike O'Malley, who is retiring May 1. ... Chemicals maker DEGUSSA AG of Darmstadt, Germany, named Hans-Peter Schaufler general manager of its Coatings & Colorants Business in Marl, Germany. ... DIEMOULD SERVICE CO. LTD., a tooling parts maker in High Wycombe, England, named John Atherton a technical sales engineer. ... FITZ CHEM CORP., a raw materials distributor in Itasca, Ill., named Scott Hendrickson vice president of sales and marketing. ... PROGRESSIVE COMPONENTS INC., a tooling parts supplier in Wauconda, Ill., named Michael Duquette project engineer and Leon Suttles Southeast sales manager as well as die-cast tooling sales manager for all of North America. Progressive also expanded Canadian sales with new sales manager Innocente Fabbro. ... SPIROFLOW SYSTEMS INC., a materials-handling equipment maker in Charlotte, N.C., named Jim Bell vice president of sales. ... WALL COLMONOY CORP., a heat-transfer technology firm in Madison Heights, Mich., named John Sturch vice president.

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