MOSCOW (MRC) -- A. Schulman Inc., leading international supplier of high-performance plastic compounds, powders and resins, has named Brent Middleton as vice president and general manager, United States and Canada, reported Cleveland Business.
Middleton "will be responsible for driving further growth in the company's United States and Canadian business" and will become a member of the senior leadership team, according to a release from the Akron-based supplier of high-performance plastic compounds and resins.
A. Schulman also announced that Gustavo Perez will become vice president and general manager, Latin America, to specifically focus on growing and developing the Latin America region.
"We have demonstrated strong recent success in the US as we have grown our business in key markets through acquisitions as well as organically," said Bernard Rzepka, chief operating officer of A. Schulman, in the release. He said Middleton "is a strategic thinker and is highly qualified to oversee our continued effort to take advantage of additional opportunities to expand our business in the US and Canada."
Perez has worked in management at A. Schulman since 1995, most recently serving as the company's vice president and general manager, Americas, since August 2010.
As MRC informed previously, in October 2014, A. Schulman signed an agreement and a strategic partnership with the South Korean polymer producer INITZ for the compounding and marketing of INITZ Co. Ltd.'s ECOTRAN Polyphenylene Sulfide (PPS) compounds.
A. Schulman is a global plastics supplier, headquartered in Akron, Ohio, and a leading international supplier of high-performance plastic compounds and resins, which are used as raw materials in a variety of markets. A. Schulman has 33 manufacturing facilities globally. A. Schulman's fiscal third-quarter earnings fell 69% amid continued sluggishness in European markets and higher-than-expected costs in Latin America, where the company has been consolidating its Brazilian operations.
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