Personnel Notes

Vecoplan LLC, High Point, N.C., has appointed two new employees to its sales staff.

Mike Cox has joined the company as waste division Midwest sales manager, and Vinnie Carpentieri has been hired to the post of national sales manager, mobile division.

Cox is responsible for sales to the municipal, industrial and post-consumer waste markets, including the printing and document destruction industries. He brings 18 years of experience in capital equipment and industrial sales to his new position

"The rapid growth that we’ve experienced, especially in our Waste Division, has made it necessary for us to expand both our facilities and our personnel," Marty Kennedy, executive VP of Vecoplan LLC, says. "We are fortunate to have someone of Mike’s caliber join our team of dedicated professionals here at Vecoplan."

In his new position with the company, Carpentieri oversees all mobile shredding system sales throughout North America. He also acts as a liaison between the marketplace and Vecoplan, communicating changing and specialized customer needs to Vecoplan’s engineering R&D team and working with the marketing department to introduce innovations in mobile technologies to the marketplace.

Prior to joining Vecoplan, Carpentieri spent 23 years as sales manager at a major capital equipment manufacturer specializing in granulators for the plastics market. "We worked with Vinnie for many years at his former company," Len Beusse, COO of Vecoplan, says. "Over the years, Vinnie impressed us with his knowledge and understanding of size-reduction technology in general and his ability to grasp the needs of individual customers and then make sure those needs were met. We’re pleased that Vinnie brings this expertise to Vecoplan!"

Vecoplan is a leader in size-reduction technologies, including shredders, material handling machinery, separation equipment and complete scrap reduction systems for a wide variety of industrial markets. Vecoplan shredding and recycling equipment is used in the secure information destruction, e-scrap destruction, woodworking, plastics processing and recycling, printing and converting and general waste processing and recovery industries.

More information about Vecoplan and its products is available at www.VecoplanLLC.com, by e-mailing info@VecoplanLLC.com or by calling (336) 861-6070.

Anita Slach has been named as the new regional sales manager for City Carton Recycling’s southern and central Iowa territory.

She is responsible for developing customer recycling programs, confidential material handling programs and equipment sales and for generating new customers, new products to recycle and new sales opportunities for the company. Slach is working from City Carton’s corporate headquarters in Iowa City.

Slach has more than 14 years of sales and engineering experience. Prior to joining City Carton Recycling in June of 2007, she worked for several manufacturing and engineering firms.

City Carton Recycling, founded in 1967, is one of the largest full-service recycling companies in the Midwest. The company provides recovery programs for cardboard, office paper, plastic, tin, aluminum, newspaper, magazines, books, outdated forms and materials for thousands of municipal, commercial and industrial customers throughout Iowa and the Midwest.

City Carton also operates Document Destruction and Recycling Services, a full-service, bonded, confidential materials shredding subsidiary. The company processes recyclables at seven recycling facilities in Iowa City, Cedar Falls, Cedar Rapids, Quad Cities, Mount Pleasant, Muscatine and Creston, Iowa.

More information on City Carton Recycling can be found at www.citycarton.com.

Terex Corp., Westport, Conn., has announced several senior executive appointments in support of its strategy to increase its market presence in high growth markets around the globe.

Steve Filipov, who has been president, Terex Cranes, has been named to the new position of president, developing markets and strategic accounts, reporting to Terex President and COO Tom Riordan.

Rick Nicolas has been named president, Terex Cranes. He has been serving as president, Terex Materials Processing & Mining (MP&M). He also reports to Riordan. Nicolas has been successful in leading the advancement of lean manufacturing capabilities to improve margins and capacity, overseeing acquisitions and changing the business strategy for the Terex mining truck business.

Harry Bussman has been promoted to run the global Terex Mining business. He had been general manager of the Terex O&K large hydraulic mining shovel business. He will report to Nicolas on an interim basis while a search is conducted for a president of the overall Materials Processing & Mining segment. The Materials Processing business led by Kieran Hegarty will report to Riordan in the interim.

George Ellis has been appointed vice president, manufacturing services, reporting to Riordan. Ellis currently leads the Terex Utilities business and will continue to do so until a replacement is named. He is responsible for the Terex manufacturing strategic plan and assisting business operations with budgets.

Stuart D. Lurie, president of Wilmington Paper/Recycling Management Systems, has announced that Nini Krever, president of export brokerage company Traders International Corp., Palm Beach Gardens, Fla., has joined forces with his team to manage the company’s export sales.

Wilmington Paper manages folding carton plants across North America and Europe.

Krever says she looks forward to the opportunity to market and manage Wilmington’s export tonnage. She will run this division from Palm Beach Gardens.

Far West Fibers, an Oregon-based paper recycling company, has announced the promotion of Stan Girard to the position of chief operating officer.

He is responsible for operational activities in all of Far West Fibers’ Oregon facilities.

Girard began working at Far West in 1981, moving up from general warehouseman to the most recent promotion.

Far West Fibers operates four facilities in the Portland, Ore., metro area. The company’s Oregon locations employ approximately 80 people.

Brent Hildebrand, vice president of Denver-based Altogether Recycling, has been named to the Colorado Pollution Prevention Advisory Board Assistance Committee, a panel that advises the state on the administration of grants.

The committee will work with the board and the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment’s Sustainability Program, to implement the new $2.4 million Recycling Resources Economic Opportunity Grant and Rebate Program and the $500,000 Technology Advancement Grant Program.

"We are pleased to know that we have 13 talented individuals who have made themselves available to serve on this important committee," says Jim Martin, executive director of the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment (CDPHE). "Brent Hildebrand is one of six members representing organizations involved in recycling and composting; and we have government representatives on the committee that provide a true, bilateral approach to this effort," Martin adds.

"I look forward to making available the resources of Altogether Recycling in this CDPHE mission that so closely aligns with our own," says Hildebrand. "At Altogether Recycling, we believe we can help significantly reduce the waste stream that is currently ending up in Colorado landfills."

Brian Holtz of Eldridge, Iowa, has been appointed the new vice president of sales and marketing for City Carton Recycling.

Holtz is responsible for the leadership and direction of sales and marketing matters for City Carton. His responsibilities include coordinating the sales, marketing and customer service team; planning, developing, implementing and managing all sales, marketing and customer service activities; developing sales and marketing strategies and distribution channels; streamlining the sales process; building and retaining a strong sales, marketing and customer service team; and identifying and analyzing potential market opportunities.

Holtz has more than 15 years of experience in the solid waste and recycling industry, previously serving for five years as City Carton Recycling’s Quad Cities Recycling facility manager and two years as the company’s Eastern division manager.

Holtz is based out of City Carton Recycling’s corporate offices in Iowa City, Iowa.

Veolia Environmental Services North America Corp. (VESNA), based in Lombard, Ill., has appointed Richard Burke to the position of president and CEO, Veolia ES Solid Waste Inc., and Jeff Adix to the post of senior vice president. Both appointments were effective the first of the year.

Burke was initially appointed president and COO of Veolia ES Solid Waste last January. During his tenure with Veolia, he has served as the regional vice president for the Eastern and Southern markets and as an area manager.

Adix has served as CFO of Veolia ES Solid Waste for the past two years and as vice president of support services for VESNA for the past year.

Kathy DeLano has been named vice president of sales for Texas Recycling/Surplus Inc., Dallas.

DeLano joined the company in March 2006 as a sales representative. In her new position, she oversees the procurement of material for the company’s paper and plastic recycling operation.

Texas Recycling/Surplus is one of the state’s largest family-owned and operated paper and plastic recycling collection companies.

Reclamere Inc., based in Tyrone, Pa., has hired Thomas Laino to assist the company in its Forensic e-Discovery service offerings. Laino is a retired Pennsylvania State Police corporal.

During his tenure with the Pennsylvania State Police, Laino completed more than 600 hours of training in courses that included computer crimes and the Internet, forensic computer examiner training, advanced data recovery and analysis, proper methods of forensically examining computer systems and their associated magnetic media and certified hacking forensics.

Laino holds various professional certifications, including certified electronic evidence collection specialist, certified computer forensic examiner, certified hacking forensic investigator and EnCase certified examiner.

Reclamere offers various data security services.

The Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries Inc. (ISRI), Washington, has hired Bruce Savage as vice president of communications, a new post.

The position is the result of a staff realignment of the numerous duties of Chuck Carr, ISRI’s current vice president of member services, meetings, marketing and communications.

Under the realignment, Carr will focus on member services and education and training programs as well as direct the annual ISRI Convention and Exposition.

Tube City IMS Canada Ltd. has named two managers to its Ontario operations.

Kris Bonitatibus has been named account executive, Ontario division, and Michael Flaherty has been named district manager, scrap management. Both work out of the company’s Hamilton, Ontario, location.

Bonitatibus is responsible for strategic planning, procurement and business development. For the past six years he worked at ArcelorMittal Dofasco.

Flaherty, oversees the company’s Hamilton scrap operations, also previously worked at ArcelorMittal Dofasco, most recently as supervisor of the scrap department.

Tube City IMS LLC also has announced the appointment of Hank Wilson to the new position of vice president, North American Sales and Business Development. He works out of the company’s Birmingham, Ala., offices and is responsible for coordinating the sales of scrap substitutes throughout North America and overseeing Tube City’s scrap marketing efforts in the Midwest, South and Western United States. Previous to working at Tube City LLC, Wilson worked at Steiner-Liff industries as president of its Shredders Inc. division.

William Miller has been named senior VP and GM of International Operations, IMS Division. Miller has been with Tube City IMS for nearly 30 years and has worked in various departments at the company’s locations in Ohio, Illinois and Pennsylvania.

Fermin Maldonado has been promoted to VP of Operations, IMS Division, Tube City IMS. He works out of Texas.