Dymax Corp. appoints Peter Zazzaro its global director of quality and regulatory affairs.
Lithotype Co. Inc. names Athos Ikonomou president.
ODVA Inc. chooses Schneider Electric's Cyril Perducat, senior vp of system consistency and innovation, as president of its board of directors.
Bunting Magnetics Co. names Rod Henricks product manager—metal detection.
CPM Century Extrusion appoints Charlie Spearing the new general manager of Ruiya Extrusion in Nanjing, China.
Kliklok-Woodman hires Jim Lyons and Mario Pino as field salesmen.
A. Schulman Inc. names Todd Nichols sales manager—engineered plastics, North America and expands its San Luis Potosi, Mexico plant.
CaseStack names Tucker Taylor to its board of directors.
Catalent Pharma Solutions Inc. appoints Will Downie to the dual role of group president, sterile technologies, and senior vp of global sales & marketing. It also creates a new business unit dedicated to helping customers bring new pharmaceutical and biologic products to market and appoints Scott Houlton as group president for the new segment.
Balluff names Dave Bird medical business-development manager.
Renold Americas names Rick Hamilton as president.
LPS Industries LLC hires Craig E. Livingston as director of business development.
Siemens appoints Daryl D. Dulaney president/CEO of its newly-formed Siemens Industry Inc., the U.S. affiliate of Siemens' global-industry-sector business.
Rexam appoints Eric Soubeiran as director, marketing and innovation, Personal Care Div., Plastic Packaging.
GROWING & GOING
Ball Corp. expands its metal-beverage packaging pilot-manufacturing capabilities at its innovation center.
HCP Packaging USA Inc. opens a new 60,000-sq-ft factory in Reynosa, Tamaulipas, Mexico.
BUYING & ALLYING
Berry Plastics Corp. to acquire Pliant Corp. Airworks® partners with Inflatable Packaging Inc.
Fujifilm Graphic Systems U.S.A. Inc. and EFI announce a new development partnership.
Universal Robotics, Inc. partners with Motoman to market Universal's Spatial Vision system.
Ciena purchases Nortel's optical networking and carrier ethernet assets for $390 million.
TAPPI and The Hydraulic Institute form a partnership.
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