Executives And Representatives

Press, Volume CIX, Issue 31975, 30 April 1969, Page 8

Executives And Representatives

MR lAN ROY. who gained his basic engineering training in Christchurch. has returned to manage Plastic Products' new South Island manufacturing unit. He joined Plastic Products in 1963 as a trainee technician in the injectionmoulding department at Hamilton. He was soon appointed the department’s production engineer, a position he held for three years before moving to the blowmoulding department for a further three years.

MR DON LEWIS, sales and planning administrator, combines the dual functions of sales supervision and production planning at the Christchurch factory. The work is an extension of Mr Lewis’s operations at Plastic Products' Hamilton plant, where he spent four years in charge of the company's sales office. Mr Lewis continues the same duties in his new position, while also being concerned with broader fields of factory operation.

MR MICHAEL MATHIESON is Christchurch representative for Plastic Products. Limited, and Canterbury customers’ link with the company for all products. Mr Mathieson spent five years with the R.N.Z.A.F. as a flying-boat captain and later settled in Hamilton as a radio announcer with IXH before joining Plastic Products' Waikato plant as a sales liaison officer.

MR RUSSELL C ASSET, who has been appointed factory foreman at the new plant has been apprentice-ship-trained by Plastic Products, Limited, as a plastics specialist. Winner of the 1965 Union Carbide Award for the best apprentice plastics engineer in New Zealand, Mr Cassey is handling technical and supervisory problems in Christchurch.

MR TOM MeLEOD is Dunedin representative for Plastic Products Limited, covering the entire area south of the Waitaki River. He has been with Plastic Products and an associated company. J. Gadsden and Co., Ltd, for 12 years. Before entering the plastics industry, Mr McLeod was a racehorse trainer and studfarm manager. He maintains his interest in racing as an assistant stipendiary steward for the New Zealand Racing Conference.