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Published February 10, 2006
Dennis McGrew became the new president and chief executive officer of NatureWorks LLC, Minnetonka, MN, a wholly owned business unit of Cargill, effective last month. NatureWorks is the first company to offer a family of commercially available polymer… Read More »
Published February 10, 2006
As three Koch company executives accept roles at Georgia-Pacific Corporation and depart the Invista board of directors, three new Invista board members have been appointed. Jeff Gentry, president of Koch Mineral Services and Koch Industries, Inc… Read More »
Published February 10, 2006
Georgia-Pacific Corp., Atlanta, GA, which was recently purchased by Koch Industries, has put a new senior leadership team in place. Among the new leaders is Bill Caffey, who will serve as executive vice president, operations and compliance. The… Read More »
Published February 10, 2006
Buckeye Technologies Inc. has established a new organization effective this month with a mission of bringing new products to the market on an accelerated schedule. Jeffery Cook, who has been appointed senior vice president, marketing, will lead the n… Read More »
Published January 9, 2006
Bosch Rexroth has named key managers for its new business initiative called Bosch Rexroth Oil Control, North America. Leading the new initiative will be Michael Boehm as director for compact hydraulics. Mr. Boehm has more than 20 years experience in… Read More »
Published January 9, 2006
Enka tecnica has named Petra Ferreira sales chief for North America. Ms. Ferreira joined Enka tecnica eight years ago as management assistant in the polyester spinning plant. Since then, she has worked in the inside sales department and most recently… Read More »
Published January 9, 2006
Thomas Rimel, Jr. is now commercial development manager at Adhesives Research. In this position, he is responsible for identifying new market segments and applications that would benefit from Adhesives Research’s high performance products and t… Read More »
Published January 9, 2006
Last month Peter Krummeck joined Sun Chemical Performance Pigments as director of sales-international. In this role, Mr. Krummeck will be responsible for all sales and sales-related activities outside of North America for coatings, inks, plastics and… Read More »
Published January 9, 2006
Avery Dennison Corporation has elected Kent Kresa non-executive chairman of the board of directors. As part of this planned transition of executive leadership, Philip Neal, chairman and former chief executive officer of Avery Dennison, is retiring fr… Read More »
Published January 9, 2006
Two key personnel changes have taken place at Suominen Nonwovens. In the first, Sakari Santa-Paavola has been appointed vice president and general manager of Suominen Nonwovens. He has been working as commercial director of the company since early 20… Read More »
Published January 9, 2006
Michael Rosenzweig has joined Johns Manville as senior vice president, corporate development and general counsel. Mr. Rosenzweig, who will report directly to Steve Hochhauser, JM’s chairman, president, and CEO, will lead the company’s cor… Read More »
Published January 9, 2006
Buckeye Technologies has recently made several management changes. Among them, F. Gray Carter will become vice president, purchasing and logistics. Mr. Carter will lead Buckeye’s purchasing and logistics organization.
In another recent pers… Read More »
Published January 9, 2006
Polymer Group has initiated two appointments in its global medical business unit to support ongoing growth, including the addition of the company’s fully integrated medical production facility in Asia. Fernando Marin has joined the company as s… Read More »
Published January 9, 2006
Kimberly-Clark announced the 2006 retirement of Dudley Lehman, group president of its Business-to-Business (B2B) Group, which contains its external nonwovens business as well as the K-C Professional, Health Care and Partnership Products businesses. P… Read More »
Published December 8, 2005
William Ghitis has been named chairman of the American Fiber Manufacturers Association. Vice president of apparel for Invista, Mr. Ghitis succeeds Walter Hubbard, CEO of Honeywell Nylon. Vice president of Unifi-SANS Technical Fibers, Zach Z… Read More »
