People News - July 2009

Published: July 01, 2009

• Toray Plastics (America), North Kingstown, RI, names Tonya McBride national sales manager and Justin Larson sales representative for the Lumirror Polyester Film Div.

• Steven G. Clyne joins Patriot Funding Corp., New York, NY, as director.

• Tridak, Torrington, CT, adds Ken Morton to its Engineering Dept.

• TAPPI, Norcross, GA, names the following Fellows for their contributions to the pulp, paper, and packaging industries: Joseph M. Genco, Norman F. Marsolan Jr., John R. Martin, John A. Neun, Thomas E. Rodencal, Michael Y. Sun, and Peter D. Wallace.

• Equipolymers, Horgen, Switzerland, announces the retirement of president and CEO, Graham Fox, to be succeeded by Henry Roth.

• At the PrintCity Alliance, Gröbenzell, Germany, Han Haan, Sappi, is elected chairman and Dr. Gerald Schobesberger, manroland, is elected vice-chairman of the Activity Group, Packaging, Commercial & Sheetfed.

• J.J. Wilbur is added to the sales team at Teledyne Tekmar Co., Mason, OH, to cover the Northeast.

• Bridget Tan becomes sales director for Price & Pierce (Asia-Pacific) Pte. Ltd., part of Gould Paper Corp., New York, NY.

• Dan King is announced as national sales manager at Mohawk Fine Papers, West Cohoes, NY.

• Michael R. Pfaff is named president of the Folding Carton Div. of the Americas at Gallus, Philadelphia, PA.

• GLV USA, Lenox, MA, appoints Nate Reynolds leader of the Mechanical Engineering Group; Volker Klocke leader of the Controls Engineering Group; and Brian Marauszwski leader of the Product Applications Group.

• Jack Robinson is the new North American sales manager for Kempsmith/D&L Machine Co., Milwaukee, WI.

• All Barcode Systems, Garden Grove, CA, announces Deborah Waddell as mountain/central account manager.

• Anthony P. Crupi Sr. is appointed CEO at the Pitman Co., Totowa, NJ.

• Smurfit-Stone Container Corp., Chicago, IL, names John Murphy senior VP and CFO. He succeeds Chuck Hinrichs, who is pursuing other career opportunities.

• Michael Middendorf is appointed western regional sales manager at Fortune Plastics, Old Saybrook, CT.

• Russ Woods becomes a territory manager for the Printing Products group and Flexible Die Div. of Bunting Magnetics Co., Newton, KS.

• At Flint Group, Charlotte, NC, Geoff Barba assumes the newly created position of business development manager-corrugated market, for the US and Canada.