Personnel Notes

Vecoplan Announces Appointments

Shredding equipment manufacturer Vecoplan LLC of High Point, N.C., has announced two personnel appointments.

Jason Duncan has joined Vecoplan as a project engineer, bringing 10 years of engineering experience to his new position with the company.

His responsibilities include working with Vecoplan’s sales staff in the design and development of complete size-reduction and recycling systems and coordinating their manufacture and implementation with Vecoplan’s production.

Matthew Everhart also has joined the company as a territory manager in its waste paper systems division.

Everhart will be responsible for Midwest sales in Vecoplan’s waste paper markets, including the printing and document destruction industries, as well as electronics that are processed by the information destruction industry.

He brings five years of sales experience to his new position.

Smurfit-Stone Container Corp., Chicago, Ill., has announced that Alan E. Goldberg has retired as a director of the company.

Goldberg is a co-managing partner of Lindsay Goldberg, New York, and is retiring from the Smurfit-Stone board of directors to focus all of his attention on his business interests, according to a press release.

Commenting on Goldberg’s retirement, Patrick J. Moore, Smurfit-Stone chairman and CEO, says, "Alan has served our company as a board member and valued advisor for more than 20 years, and in that time many of us at Smurfit-Stone have been privileged to call him both a colleague and a friend. His keen insight will be missed in our boardroom, but we completely understand the increasing demands on his time and wish him the best in all of his future endeavors."

Smurfit-Stone is one of the industry’s leading integrated containerboard and corrugated packaging producers. The company operates approximately 170 facilities and employs approximately 22,000 people.