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JCB INC.

JCB Inc., White Marsh, Md., has appointed Mike Chapman as president of the company. He will be overseeing the company’s North American operations.

Chapman has been with the company since 1976 and became managing director of the Loadall telescopic handler division in the U.K. in 1998. He has also spent time as a managing director of JCB Hydrapower, makers of JCB’s mini-excavator product line.

“JCB Inc. is being reorganized and its management team strengthened to support the company’s North American expansion program,” says John Patterson, group chief executive. “Mike has wide experience in sales, service and manufacturing within the JCB Group which will serve him well.”

WASTE MANAGEMENT INC.

William Prachar has been named as vice president—business ethics and compliance, at Waste Management Inc., Houston. He will direct a department responsible for guiding WM’s business and professional ethics programs.

Prachar joins WM from Legal Research Network Inc., where he was general manager of its Internet compliance education product and contributed to the development of online training.

LBX CO.

Kevin Roberts has been named parts business manager of LBX Co., Lexington, Ky. His responsibilities will include management of the parts business including marketing, sales and customer service.

Roberts comes to LBX from Clark Material Handling Co. where he was most recently purchasing manager of after-market parts.

At Clark he held several positions, including customer service manager, materials manager and inventory control manager.

FERROUS PROCESSING & TRADING CO.

Howard Sherman has been appointed as president and chief operating officer of Ferrous Processing & Trading Co., Detroit, according to a report in American Metal Market. Sherman had been the president of K Scrap Resources Ltd., Windsor, Canada. Sherman is also the second vice president of the Canadian Association of Recycling Industries (CARI).

STELLAR INDUSTRIES INC.

Francis Zrostlik, founder of Stellar Industries Inc., Garner, Iowa, has been inducted into the Tire Association of North America’s Hall of Fame. The honor is accorded “to those who have contributed to the success of the tire business industry.”

Zrostlik founded Iowa Mold Tooling (IMT) in 1961 to re-tool the hot cure molds then used to retread tires. The next year he purchased patterns and rights to sell the Mobile Air compressor system. In 1964 he designed the Du-All Fleetside pick-up toolboxes as a companion to the compressors.

Throughout the 1970’s Zrostlik added to the product line and also served as president of the National Tire Dealers & Retreader’s Association Superior Council. He sold the business in 1985 and remained involved until he retired in 1988.

In 1990 he founded Stellar Industries Inc., which was the first U.S. designer and manufacturer of hydraulic hooklift loaders. To increase sales volume, Stellar purchased the assets of Collins Tire division of David Manufacturing of Mason City, Iowa.

Today more than 160 people are employed by Stellar Industries.

ADP HOLLANDER

ADP Hollander has named Scot Doyle as vice president and general manager. He will be responsible for providing strategic direction for the company and overseeing day-to-day operations.

Doyle assumed responsibility in December and brings customer service experience with him to the job. Prior to working for ADP, he served new car dealerships across the United States and Canada as part of ADP’s Dealer Services division.

“With the increased opportunities available through new technology and the Internet, as well as the challenges posed by consolidation, now is a truly exciting time to be part of ADP Hollander and the automotive recycling business,” Doyle says.

TRUCKS & PARTS

Marvin Goldberg, founder of Trucks & Parts of Tampa and Trucks & Parts of Ohio, has been selected to receive the International Parts Association’s Lifetime Achievement Award.

Trucks and Parts of Tampa/Ohio is America’s largest online and retail dealer of used, reconditioned and new refuse vehicles, garbage trucks, roll-offs and specialty vehicles for the waste management industry. The company also supplies used, rebuilt and new heavy-duty truck parts. The company has been recognized by Advertising Age for operating one of the Top 200 business-to-business websites for 1999 and as the first in its industry to develop an industry specific website.

VERMEER MANUFACTURING

Jarret Cowden, vice president of marketing and sales of Vermeer Manufacturing since 1991, will be leaving that position in May. He will be entering a new venture that will provide outsourced marketing and advertising services to the company and to Vermeer dealers. Cowden will form Two Rivers Marketing Resource Co., an advertising and marketing company, in partnership with Tom Dunphy.