People, Places and Things

Pace Marketing & Sales, Inc. added Vincent McElhone as their Territory Sales Representative for New England.

Bill Minouge joins RTP Company as Division General Manager for their new Sheet Extrusion Division.

Quintax, Inc., manufacturer of 3- and 5- axis routers, has added Eric Kenney as Sales and Marketing Manager.

Empire Plastics announced Dean Li has been appointed General Manager of Empire Plastic Inc. Additionally, Karen Pringle has joined Customer Service, Tim Ohler has taken over Purchasing in addition to his position as Director of Environmental and Safety Systems and Robert Viereck has been appointed Accounting Manager.

Rowmark, Inc. named Kurt Ohlrich Vice President of Finance and Chief Financial Officer.

Brett Martin Inc., added Ron Melvin to head up their new US distribution center.

Solvay Engineered Polymers, Inc., announced the appointment of Frederick W. Young as President of the company. Young replaces Pierre Joris, who moves to the Brussels headquarters of parent company Solvay S.A. to assume responsibilities as General Manager of the Performance Compounds Strategic Business Unit.

Ryan Herco Products Corporation announced the promotion of Randy Beckwith to Vice President of Sales. Jason Winans has been assigned the role of Manager of Continuous Thermoforming for Brown Machine following the retirement of Jim Alien, who was with Brown since 1966.

Ticona has appointed Michael Oberste-Wilms as European Sales Director. The previous Sales Director, Gregor Bommel takes over global responsibility for the Topas® COC business line. Anthony O’Driscoll became Americas Sales Director.