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Top packaging professionals join Hartness

Hartness International announces the hiring of Rich Brown and John Loughlin.

Rich Brown joins Hartness as Northeast Regional Sales Manager, based in upstate New York. With more than 20 years of packaging equipment experience, he is one of North America's leading technical sales experts on shrink film equipment. In addition, John Loughlin has joined Hartness as Market Development Manager-Film Products. John has spent much of his 27-year film career traveling worldwide to support shrink film installations. John joins Hartness from Sonoco where he served in their Flexible Packaging Division as Market Manager for Beverage.
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