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Photo Credit: SPE ACCE The executive planning committee for the Society of Plastics Engineers (SPE, Brookfield, Conn., U.S.) Automotive Composites Conference & Expo (ACCE, Detroit, Mich., U.S.) announces Dan Dowdall, global business development manager – transportation composites at INEOS Composites (formerly Ashland Performance Materials, Dublin, Ohio, U.S.) as ACCE’s first keynote speaker. During the Sept. 8-10, 2021 event, Dowdall will present “Advancements for Cost-Effective Re...

Kickstart: Virtual Antec returns to your computer screens for a second year Virtual Antec returns to your computer screens for a second year Welcome to the second year of virtual Antec, once again coming to you from basement offices, spare bedrooms and dining room tables converted to desks. The 2020 Antec was one of the first events in the U.S. to take a big hit by the pandemic, and the Society of Plastics Engineers successfully converted a live event in San Antonio to a virtual one within a li...

Donald Picard starts consultancy to stay involved in polymers Donald Picard starts consultancy to stay involved in polymers After 40 years in the rubber industry, Donald Picard formed his own consultancy firm. SANDOWN, N.H.—When Donald Picard found himself on the outside looking in after a restructuring at custom mixer Hexpol Compounding in early 2020, he wasnt ready to call it a career. Nobody would have blamed him if he decided it was time to ease up a bit after more than four decades in th...

Soldera Mining Corp.: Soldera Mining Signs Gary N. Benninger as CEO and Executive Chairman of the Board Soldera" or the " Company") is pleased to announce the appointment of Gary Benninger as CEO & Executive Chairman of the Board of Directors. Dr. Benninger has over 25 years experience working for Magna International, where he served in several different roles before being promoted to Executive Vice President of Engineering and R&D. As Managing Director of Magnas joint venture developing advanc...

Get the weekly rundown Email* ELECTED Following the 148th Annual Meeting of Corporators on March 30, Jewett City Savings Bank announced the election of Christian Sarantopoulos of Pomfret Center as corporator. Sarantopoulos is a practicing attorney and owner of the law firm of Sarantopoulos & Sarantopoulos, LLC in Danielson. For more information, visit www.JCSBank.com. Rich Kanarski of Davis-Standard in Pawcatuck has been elected to serve as a Technical Program Chair for the...

Museum of Russian Icons announces death of founder Gordon B. Lankton Gordon left an indelible mark on the town of Clinton, turning old, otherwise abandoned buildings on Union Street into Nypro Inc. and the Museum of Russian Icons, both globally recognized organizations. CLINTON, MASS .- The Board of Trustees of the Museum of Russian Icons announced the death of founder Gordon B. Lankton. After opening a branch of his plastics manufacturing company in Moscow in 1992, he came to appreciate Russia...

The Board of Trustees of the Museum of Russian Icons has announced the death of founder Gordon B. Lankton. After opening a branch of his plastics manufacturing company in Moscow in 1992, he came to appreciate Russian culture, particularly the icon, the emblematic sacred art form stemming from the Byzantine traditions of the Russian Orthodox Christian faith. Gordon founded the Museum of Russian Icons in 2006. From his early days as a Boy Scout collecting pennies, Gordon was a studious and passio...

2021 Rising Stars: Andrew Wooley President, Houston Plastic Products Corp. Andrew Wooley got his feet wet helping his father, Randy, a salesman and general manager for ACM in the 1980s and 1990s, at trade shows and attending business trips. "My father is the reason I am in plastics," he said about his mentor. "I was lucky to be educated and trained by the best in the business, my father. I was able to learn much from his co-workers and his friends in the business." Wooley graduated from Texas C...

2021 Rising Stars: Colleen Lavelle Technical Service and Development Engineer, M. Holland Co. Colleen Lavelle graduated from Lafayette College in Pennsylvania with a Bachelor of Science in chemical engineering and a Bachelor of Arts in mathematics. Her first job in the plastics industry was a lab engineer internship at T&T Marketing, a distributor of polymer resins and compounds to the wire and cable market, where she worked on a product development project. "I was initially drawn to the intern...

Kevin Herrington, 32 Research Scientist, Braskem With the COVID-19 pandemic, Kevin Herrington said most of his team has been working from home since March. The challenge has been in finding new ways to work and communicate with one another, but it has also created more time to examine and…