Bill Bregar is an 18-year veteran of Plastics News, having joined as a reporter prior to the publication's launch in March 1989. He was promoted to senior reporter in January 1996. Today he primarily covers the plastics machinery market, and for the past several years has spearheaded the PN Processor of the Year Award project - sifting through the entries, coordinating the judging by a team of his editorial colleagues, and personally visiting each finalist company before a winner is chosen.
A 1983 journalism graduate of Ohio University, Bregar had five years of daily newspaper reporting experience and had been an assistant editor of Restaurant Management magazine before joining Plastics News in its Akron, Ohio, headquarters.