People in Plastics: Week of Nov. 4, 2024 | Plastics News

CHEMISTRY INDUSTRY ASSOCIATION OF CANADA — The trade group in Ottawa named Rocky Vermani of Nova Chemicals Corp. as its chair.

COMPOSITES ONE LLC — The materials distributor in Schaumburg, Ill., has named a succession plan with Al Dobbeck taking over as CEO from Leon Garoufalis, who will transition to vice chair, effective Dec. 31, 2025. Dobbeck is currently executive vice president and chief operating officer.

CRP USA LLC — The 3D printing services provider in Mooresville, N.C., named Rom Quintos sales director.

INKCUPS NOW CORP. — The pad printing and screen printing equipment manufacturer in Danvers, Mass., named David Connors vice president of operations.

KISTLER INSTRUMENT AG — The process monitoring and control systems maker in Winterthur, Switzerland, named Marc Schaad CEO, succeeding Rolf Sonderegger.

MCELROY MANUFACTURING INC. — The manufacturer of thermoplastic pipe joinings in Tulsa, Okla., named Bob Biffle, Mike Lee and David Lee to its 2024 Fusion Hall of Fame, which recognizes the innovators whose commitment to development and acceptance of fusible plastic pipe has significantly advanced the fusible plastic pipe industry over the past 50 years.

MERAXIS AG — The polymer distributor in Muri bei Bern, Switzerland, named Olga Baburina head of global sales and Mattis Gosmann head of its standard and performance polymers division.

NATUREWORKS LLC — The biopolymer producer in Plymouth, Minn., named Roger Kempa chief financial officer and Roger Tambay chief growth officer.

NEXT GENERATION RECYCLINGMASCHINEN GMBH — Josef Hochreiter, CEO of the Next Generation Group, is assuming the role of managing director of the recycling machinery manufacturer in Feldkirchen, Austria, succeeding Gerhard Ohler, who is leaving the company.

NEXTLOOPP AMERICAS — The New York-based collaborative project on post-consumer, food-grade recycled polypropylene named Marcio Amazonas vice president.

NORDSON CORP. — The precision dispensing equipment manufacturer in Westlake, Ohio, named Julian Kätzlmeier sales director of Europe, the Middle East and Africa for Nordson BKG GmbH in Münster, Germany.

ORION SA — The specialty chemicals manufacturer in Spring, Texas, named Natalia Scherbakoff chief technology officer, succeeding David Deters, who plans to retire at the end of the year.

PLASKOLITE LLC — The sheet manufacturer in Columbus, Ohio, named Marco Fiorucci managing director for Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

PLASTIC PIPE AND FITTINGS ASSOCIATION — The trade group in Glen Ellyn, Ill., has elected new officers: president, Carl Baker of Shell Chemical LP; vice president and director, Beth Guinn of Oxy Vinyls LP; treasurer and director, Andre Battistin of Westlake Pipe & Fittings; director, Ben Bartow of Cresline Plastic Pipe Co.; and director, Travis Lutes of Ipex USA LLC.

SCHREINER GROUP LP — The printing and film-processing company in Blauvelt, N.Y., named Ken Forlenza president.

STEP2 DISCOVERY LLC — The rotational molder in Streetsboro, Ohio, named Nick Osiecki CEO.

STRONGWELL CORP. — G. David Oakley Jr., CEO of the pultruder of fiber-reinforced composites in Bristol, Va., was named to Virginia Business Magazine's Virginia 500 list of top executives and leaders.

TANA OY — The solid waste management machinery maker in Jyväskylä, Finland, named Henri Kinnunen product management and business development vice president.

THERMOFAB — The thermoformer in Shirley, Mass., named Mustafa Hossaini senior business development manager.

TORAY ADVANCED COMPOSITES — The composite material developer in Morgan Hill, Calif., named Steven Mead global chief commercial officer.

TRELLEBORG AB — The engineering group in Trelleborg, Sweden, named nine executive board members to lead its medical solutions business: Kate Bartelli, Luiz Cortez, Daniel Diffenderfer, Kevin Ehlert, Jess Gritz, Yonatan Necoechea, Ricardo Oliveira, KJ Tan and Giovanni Tricarico.

TRELLEBORG SEALING SOLUTIONS — The supplier of custom-molded polymer components in Fort Wayne, Ind., named Jonas Karlsson president of Industrial Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

UBQ MATERIALS LTD. — The developer of materials made from waste in Tel Aviv, Israel, named Gina McCarthy, a former administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, to its international advisory board.

ZAHORANSKY AG — The tooling maker in Todtnau, Germany, named Heinrich Sielemann chief technical officer and Ric Nachtmann chief financial officer. Ulrich Zahoransky will move to its supervisory board, and Winfried Ebner will remain managing director of Zahoransky Automation & Molds GmbH.

ZEUS INC. — The polymer tubing manufacturer in Orangeburg, S.C., named Tim Sette chief financial officer.

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