In 2007, Ray MacNeil left his job at PPG Industries where he’d worked for 35 years and began consulting. With a background in sales and marketing, strategic planning and business analysis, MacNeil does market research and development for a variety of companies within the composites industry. This experience also allows MacNeil to look ahead...
Fritz Scholten is a native of Germany with degrees in international trading and business administration/economics. A steel industry and materials expert, he was head manager in executive positions at major German steel trading companies. He has started three successful businesses in a variety of industrial fields, including composites.
Nathan James Armstrong is president of Motive Industries Inc., an automotive design firm in Calgary, Alberta, Canada that is developing bio-composite-bodied electric cars using industrial hemp fiber in the manufacturing process. The company unveiled the Kestrel—Canada's first bio-composite electric vehicle design, at the September EV 2010 VÉ Conference and Trade Show in Vancouver, British...
Bryan Smith is the general manager of Goldshield Fiberglass, a Decatur, Indiana-based manufacturer of custom molded composites that has 150 employees and 260,000 square feet of manufacturing space. Smith’s first stint at Goldshield lasted 14 years (from 1986 to 2000), and he rejoined the company in 2009 to oversee its day-to-day operations and to...
Top composites news this week included the following: Armored Chariots LLC, a joint venture between TPI and Plasan, will produce lightweight crew compartments for military vehicles. SAMPE and SME reported record attendance at their co-located conferences. Marine Products Corp. a manufacturer of fiberglass boats, reported third-quarter profits.
Custom Fiberglass Moldings will receive $169,000 in economic development tax credits from Wisconsin to expand its manufacturing facility. An FRP utility pole and crossarm, manufactured by Creative Pultrusions, were installed at Shawnee State Park. PPG ended the third quarter with record earnings.
After receiving a B.S. in mechanical engineering from Arizona State University and pursuing an MBA in marketing, Howard Lindsay spent more than 10 years creating effective aerospace and military composite-based products and technologies. Lindsay founded ViaTech to apply aerospace composite technology to consumer products. After three years, he became VP of Engineering at True...
Ranger Boats’ new owners will invest $13 million to retool and expand, which will create more than 115 new jobs. Met-Pro won a $3.7 million contract to supply fiberglass centrifugal pumps to a marine life park in Southeast Asia. Maine Marine Composites is using a $1 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy...
LCOA Composites developed a lightweight composite police shield, which the company says can stop a bullet at 15 feet. Automated Dynamics introduced a carbon-fiber hydraulic pump at the Offshore Technology Conference. The DOT gave the Center for Transportation and Materials Engineering at Youngstown State University a $463,400 grant to investigate light-weight materials for...
John Schweitzer began his career in the plastics industry at a manufacturing company with plants scattered in the northeast United States. After 10 years with the company, the last three as a plant manager, he joined the staff at Composites Institute, a precursor to the American Composites Manufacturers Association (ACMA). Schweitzer was originally hired...
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