COMPOSITES WATCH
people briefs
Competence in composites:
We have better solutions
for making cars lighter
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With our new, innovative D-SMC and
HP-RTM processes, we are continuously
advancing global progress in series production of lightweight components with
glass or carbon fbre-reinforced plastics.
www.dieffenbacher.com
CT OCTOBER 2013
Stephen Browning, PE, joined Strongwell Corp. (Bristol, Va.) as a structural engineer. He has a BS in civil engineering technology from Bluefeld
State College, a BS in civil and environmental engineering from Tennessee Tech University and an MS in civil engineering from Virginia Tech.
From 2004 to 2013 he operated his own construction design/consulting
business … The Composites Group (Highlands Heights, Ohio) realigned
its senior management. Hector Diaz-Stringel was promoted to VP of
manufacturing operations. He worked in the chemicals industry before
joining the company as corporate director of manufacturing operations
in 2012. Diaz-Stringel holds a BS in chemical engineering and management from the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education
(Monterrey, Mexico) and an MBA from Kent State University. Dwight
Morgan became VP of sales and marketing. He began his career with
M.A. Hanna Co. (Cleveland, Ohio), now Avon Lake, Ohio-based PolyOne
Corp., then formed color and additive formulator Accel Color Corp. (Naperville, Ill.), now part of Techmer PM LLC (Clinton, Tenn.). Morgan holds
a BA from Kent State University's School of Journalism and a JD from the
University of Akron School of Law. Company veteran Marc Imbrogno
was promoted to corporate director, market/product development. He
began his career as an R&D; chemist at Cleveland, Ohio-based Glastic
Corp. and then joined BASF (Florham Park, N.J.). He holds a BS in chemistry from the University of Akron … Robert Scarpitto has joined the
Interplastic Corp. (St. Paul, Minn.) sales team as a sales representative
responsible for California, Nevada and Baja California, Mexico. He brings
to the position more than 20 years in a variety of sales positions.
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