PolyQuest adds to management staff

Wilmington, North Carolina-based PolyQuest Inc., which distributes thermoplastics resins and operates a plastics recycling facility in Darlington, South Carolina, has hired four new staff members.

The company says its hiring of Andy Fredericks, Brian Goldberg, John Sarrao and James Nelson, who Polyquest refers to as “distinguished industry experts,” positions the company to further elevate its industry standing.

“PolyQuest is forging ahead in exciting new direction,” PolyQuest CEO John Marinelli says. “The addition of Andy, Brian, John and James will be seamless within our organization. It’s very rare to find external talents such as these in one package with the same DNA structure as PolyQuest. We welcome them with open arms.”

The LinkedIn profiles of all four new PolyQuest employees indicate that prior to joining PolyQuest this month, they had worked for Bamberger Polymers, a resins manufacturer based in Jericho, New York. Bamberger merged earlier this year with Orlando, Florida-based Amco Polymers.

PolyQuest says investments and decisions it has made have the firm poised to responsibly yet rapidly scale its distribution business while maintaining a customer-centric focus with servitude as its overriding core principle.

Earlier this decade, the company made strategic investments to implement new, modern enterprise resource planning (ERP) and business intelligence solutions that streamline its business processes, improve data analytics and support future growth.

“Although we have traditional values in building and nurturing industry relationships, our unmatched capabilities to oversee the supply chain and swiftly customize solutions for our customers stems from our people and our technologies," Marinelli says. "This is an enduring commitment.”

PolyQuest is a privately held thermoplastic resin distributor headquartered in Wilmington and with additional facilities in Florence, South Carolina; Farmingdale, New York; and in Darlington, where it produces recycled-content polyethylene terephthalate (rPET).

The company also offers what it calls “one of the broadest resin catalogs in the hemisphere" for the bottle, sheet, strapping, film, fiber, compounding and injection molding markets, including PET, polypropylene, polyethylene, high-impact polystyrene and rPET.