Conveying & accumulation

Petros Diamantides Appointed COO – Emerging Markets for Duravant

Diamantides will be responsible for driving geographic expansion for Duravant products and services across its food processing, packaging and material handling sectors by delivering brands, solutions, and infrastructure to support its global customers.

July 6, 2022

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Additives, coatings & inks

Spartech Announces New Staff Promotions

Spartech Corporation

Spartech promoted Danny Puran to Operations and Technology Manager, Polycast, Stamford, Conn. location; Jason Thomas to Plant Manager, Greenville, Ohio location; and Todd Chastain to Converting Operations Manager, Crawfordsville, Ind. location.

June 30, 2022

Palletizing/depalletizing

Toyota Material Handling Hires Daniel Schumacher as Director of Information Technology

Toyota Material Handling

Schumacher joins Toyota from Komatsu, where he served as Global Director of IT Applications and Digital Innovation.

June 30, 2022

Palletizing/depalletizing

nVenia Announces Paul Ferrandino as the Senior Vice President of Sales

Ferrandino will be responsible for evolving nVenia’s capabilities in key accounts and selling of the complete nVenia portfolio.

June 23, 2022

Workforce

Partnerships: One Path to Training to Ease Talent Shortages

Pick your industry. Some long-timers are realizing that the next generation of expertise their teams require isn’t being groomed as they need it.

June 22, 2022

Sustainability

Jeffrey Prosinski Appointed to Michelman Board of Directors

Michelman Inc.

Prosinski is Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer at J.M. Huber Corp.

June 20, 2022

Workforce

Philipp Lenz Promoted to Technical Service Coordinator for SOMIC Packaging

SOMIC Packaging, Inc.

A 15-year industry veteran, Lenz will serve as the technical advisor to customers with 24/7 online response for all troubleshooting and technical related questions.

June 8, 2022

Workforce

Co-packer Provides Opportunity for Adults with Disabilities

Nonprofit Co-packer provides secondary packaging services and offers employment opportunities to adults with disabilities.

June 3, 2022

Workforce

Pactiv Evergreen Adds Personnel to its Filling Equipment Div.

Pactiv Evergreen

Pactiv Evergreen named Tom Fahrenkrug Manager of Training & Support and Tim Barnett Southern U.S. Sales Representative.

June 2, 2022

Workforce

Rudolf Hausladen Named CEO of the Beumer Group

BEUMER Group

Rudolf Hausladen was named CEO of family-owned Beumer Group, effective today. He succeeds Dr. Christoph Beumer who has led the group of companies as CEO and Managing Partner since 2000.

June 1, 2022

Sustainability

Jones Family of Companies Welcomes Scott Butler as COO

Jones Family of Companies

As it continues to move forward to grow and improve its operations while strengthening its position as a nonwoven manufacturing leader, the Jones Family of Companies re-hired Scott Butler as Chief Operating Officer.

May 24, 2022

Cup/tray filling/depositing/sealing

Rob Mogren Joins UltraSource LLC as Chief Financial Officer

UltraSource

Mogren comes to UltraSource with significant meat and food industry experience and financial expertise.

May 18, 2022

Operational Excellence

Great Resignation Driving Employee Poaching

It’s a buyer’s market for job seekers as 81,000 left manufacturing from Aug. 2020 through Aug. 2021. Manufacturers are climbing over each other to poach workers to meet increases in production.

May 12, 2022