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Spartech Promotes Suzanne Fenton to Senior Marketing Communications Manager
January 14, 2021 GMT
Spartech promotes Suzanne Fenton to Senior Marketing Communications Manager. (Photo: Business Wire)
ST. LOUIS (BUSINESS WIRE) Jan 14, 2021
Spartech, a leading plastics manufacturer of engineered thermoplastic materials and specialty packaging products, has promoted Suzanne Fenton to Senior Marketing Communications Manager.
Spartech promotes Suzanne Fenton to Senior Marketing Communications Manager. (Photo: Business Wire)
“Suzanne has proven herself as a highly valuable and experienced member of the Spartech marketing team,” said Vice President, Sales and Marketing Joe Herres. “With these additional responsibilities, we looked forward to the ongoing, positive impact and results she will bring to our department and organization.”
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It was a seagull in a white rowboat, playing with a piece of plastic trash, picking it up in his beak and dropping it onto the hard surface of the boat and into the water. “He was purposely dropping it into the water and then retrieving it,” Griffin said. “I had never seen this behavior before. This looked like a child playing with a toy.
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In the Virtual Engineering Week session, “How to Make Medical Packaging More Sustainable,” Jennifer Griffin, senior packaging engineer at Medtronic, shared her recent visit to a tranquil fishing village along the Atlantic in Massachusetts. She spoke of noticing the still waters, when suddenly, the quiet was interrupted by a loud, rapid, pinging noise.
It was a seagull in a white rowboat, playing with a piece of plastic trash, picking it up in his beak and dropping it onto the hard surface of the boat and into the water. “He was purposely dropping it into the water and then retrieving it,” Griffin said. “I had never seen this behavior before. This looked like a child playin
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