Personnel Notes

Northshore Manufacturing Names Southwest Regional Manager
Northshore Manufacturing, based in Two Harbors, Minn., has added Paul Foulger to its sales team as Southwest regional manager. His territory will include California, Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, Utah, Nevada and Hawaii, and he is responsible for all of Northshore’s Builtrite branded products.

Prior to joining Northshore, Foulger worked for his family’s Utah Bobcat distributorship, Stanley Hydraulic Tools and Al-Jon Manufacturing’s solid waste compactor division.

Waste Management Names New Executive vice president, CFO
Waste Management Inc. (WM), headquartered in Houston, has named James Fish Jr. executive vice president and chief financial officer. Fish, currently senior vice president of WM’s eastern group, replaces Steven Preston, who will leave the company by the end of the third quarter of this year.

Preston joined WM in 2011 after WM acquired Oakleaf Global Holdings., where he was president and CEO.

David Steiner, president and CEO of Waste Management, says, “Steve (Preston) has been highly effective as a strategic, operational and financial leader in our company. He has also played an integral role in many of our key initiatives.”

Of Fish, Steiner says, “Over more than a decade at Waste Management, Jim has taken on a wide variety of responsibilities and has done an exceptional job in every role. Jim knows the company, he is a leader and he has embraced our need to change and grow. The combination of Jim’s valuable field and corporate experience, together with his financial expertise and focus on growth, ideally position him to manage our financial affairs as we pursue our strategies of knowing more about our customers and how best to service them; extracting more value from the materials we handle; and innovating and optimizing our business.”

Wendt Corp. Restructures Sales Force
Wendt Corp., Tonawanda, N.Y., says it has restructured its sales department to include regional sales managers, dedicated product specialists and the appointment of a strategic business development leader.

With increased demand and growing sales opportunities, Wendt says it recognized the need to have a regional sales force that will be closer to its customers. Therefore, Wendt has added regional sales managers who will cover the West Coast, the Midwest and the East Coast. The regional sales managers will be responsible for communicating with scrap processors.

To support the regional sales managers, Wendt also has created product specialists for each of its four main product lines: automobile shredding systems, rotors and castings, nonferrous separation systems and wire chopping lines.

According to Wendt, once the regional sales managers have identified a particular need for a customer, they will work closely with the appropriate product specialist to provide the customer with expertise as they work toward a solution.

Wendt has hired Tim Conway to the role of strategic business development. He also will work with specific accounts. Conway has more than 25 years of experience in the industry beginning in 1988 when he co-founded BEST Inc. (Bulk Equipment Systems Technology), a recycling and bulk handling firm.

BHS Names New President of NRT
Eugene, Ore.-based Bulk Handling Systems (BHS), which recently acquired Tennessee-based National Recovery Technologies (NRT), has named Matthias Erdmannsdoerfer president of NRT, effective immediately.

“We are fortunate to have someone of Matthias’ caliber and experience to step up and lead NRT during this transition,” says Steve Miller, CEO of BHS.

He adds, “NRT is at a very exciting, yet equally critical, juncture as a company, and Matthias has the vision, leadership and successful track record to implement our strategy and take advantage of current market opportunities.”

rdmannsdoerfer says, “I am very excited to be joining the BHS and NRT team. NRT is one of the leading suppliers of optical sorting equipment in the world and has some of the brightest individuals in the industry.”

Erdmannsdoerfer joins BHS with more than 15 years of executive leadership experience in the material handling and capital equipment industries. He formerly served as president and CEO of Beumer Corp. and as president of Eisenmann Corp.

In related news, Edward Sommer has accepted a position as chief technology officer (CTO) of NRT. BHS says Sommer is recognized as an expert in the optical sorting field and holds 29 related patents.

Talbert Manufacturing Names Director of Business Development
Talbert Manufacturing, a Rensselaer, Ind., manufacturer of heavy-haul, specialized and custom-built trailers, has named industry veteran Gerald Rothwell director of business development. According to Talbert, the position is designed to create and expand markets for Talbert’s trailer lines throughout North America.

Rothwell brings more than 22 years of inside/outside sales and dealer development experience to Talbert, having most recently served in the positions of regional vice president; director of heavy-haul business development and director of dealer sales for Fontaine Trailer Co.

Newark Group VP Testifies Before Congress
Jonathan Gold of The Newark Group, Cranford, N.J., a manufacturer, converter and recycler of secondary fibers, appeared before the U.S. House of Representatives’ Subcommittee on Environment and the Economy in June. Gold represented the views of his company and the Paper Recycling Coalition (PRC), which represents the 100-percent-recycled paper industry.

The subcommittee of the Energy and Commerce Committee is considering legislation aimed at improving the collection and analysis of recycling material and data. Gold, senior vice president of The Newark Group’s Recovery and Recycling division, spoke in support of the effort. He indicated the effort could lead to more verifiable information on true sustainability and to better solutions in the recycling process and recycled end products.

Gold said The Newark Group and PRC support the basic principles of the House bill under consideration but remain adamantly opposed to any government mandates on the private sector that might distort market outcomes and efficiencies.

“Sound and verifiable data would focus EPA attention on the material that is actually recovered for reuse in manufacturing and that information would have the potential to lead to better understanding and improved outcomes,” Gold said. “That’s what we are seeking and that’s what will allow us and the industry to target our approaches for increasing collection and maximizing both productivity and sustainability.”