Plants and people

R. Wells Simmons has succeeded John B. Bowman as gen. sales mgr. of Ekco-Alcoa Containers Inc., Wheeling, 111. Mr. Bowman has transferred to Ekco Products Co. of Chicago, joint owner, with Aluminum Co. of America, of Ekco-Alcoa. Mr. Simmons had been associated with Alcoa since 1930, most recently as asst, district sales mgr. in the parent company's Chicago office.

Art Moses has been appointed mgr. for industrial sales, which includes accounts in all markets except that of baked goods. He has been with Ekco-Alcoa since its inception in 1955.

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Union Bag-Camp Paper Corp., New

York, has opened its new product-development laboratory in Hoboken, NJ. According to the company, it will be "devoted to the diagnosis and development of packaging available to American industry."� The laboratory houses product-development sections corresponding to the company's various product divisions, including specialty bags, corrugated boxes, multiwall bags, bleached and processed papers and board. Each section reportedly is able to duplicate the specifics of a customer's present method of packaging, handling and shipping his product. Under the direction of Lawrence Ross, the new facility also provides customer consultation, development work on new products and new uses for established products.

J. M. Moon has been elected exec. v.p. of Signode Steel Strapping Co., Chicago. He will also continue to direct the sales activities of the company.

In his new position as gen. sales mgr., R. S. Jones will be responsible for planning and sales direction of the packaging and industrial divs. of The Dobeckmun Co., Cleveland, Div. The Dow Chemical Co. Mr. Jones, a past pres, of The National Flexible Packaging Assn., has been with the firm since 1932. R. A. Hickman has been named to the new post of mgr. of market planning. He will also act as liaison with Dow on new products. W. W. Clark II continues as mgr. of the packaging div., handling an expanded group of markets for the company's products. B. P. K inter has been appointed Southwestern regional mgr., with headquarters in St. Louis. P, M. Smith succeeds him as dis

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trict mgr. for the packaging div. in the same office. Northwestern regional sales mgr., with headquarters in Chicago, is J. E. Powers. R. A. Stump has been named Central regional mgr., with headquarters in Cleveland.

American Can Co., New York, recently opened its 90,000-sq.-ft. coil-steel processing plant in Los Angeles. The new can-making facility, which processes huge coils of steel strip into standard can-making plate, has an annual capacity of more than 90,000 tons of plate, according to the company. Rated output capacity of the firm's expanded West Coast plant now is two billion metal cans and paper containers a year.

Louis T. Kimple was recently elected exec. v.p. of Dixie Wax Paper Co. Dallas, Tex. In this new post, he becomes chief executive of the company. Prior to his promotion, Mr. Kimple had held the position of senior v.p. in charge of mktg. He is also pres, of Dixie of California.

Lee Augustine has been elected pres, and treas. of The Printing Machinery Co., Cincinnati. Clarence Brestel has been named v.p. and Francis L. Dale

is secy, of the company.

As part of a continuing program for development and growth, Champion Paper & Fibre Co., Hamilton, O., has created four new operating divisions: pulp and paper mfg., paper converting, paper distribution and timber products. Gen. mgrs. of the new divisions are respectively: v.p. Karl R. Bendetsen, Henry W. Rigby, H. W. Suter and A. W. Nelson, Jr. Mr. Rigby also has been named exec. v.p. for corporate development, in which capacity he will oversee Champion's interests in producing and converting subsidiaries and will assist the pres, of the company in the planning and negotiation of new enterprises.

Other Champion promotions include: Herbert T. Randall, to senior v.p.-licensing and special projects; Robert C. Haynie, to v.p. for planning.

National Distillers & Chemical Corp., New York, has acquired the Kordite Div. of Textron, Inc., converter of plastic packaging materials, which will be operated as an independent subsidiary with no change in personnel.

Poster Packaging, Inc., is the name of a newly organized corporation, created to specialize in "low-cost, transparent packaging for foods."� The corporation, located at 3401 Division St., Chicago, has acquired the machinery and equipment of the packaging div. of Poster

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Products, Inc., Chicago. Pres, of the new company is Robert Burke, pres, of Poster Products. L. J. Burke is board chairman. Richard V. Minogue becomes v.p. and director of sales, and J. Donald Bostrom is v.p. in charge of research, development and production.

A new sales mgr. for "Gen-etron"� refrigerants and aerosol propellents has been appointed by Allied Chemical & Dye Co.'s General Chemical Div. He is Fred C. Hitchings, succeeding Lee D. Callans, who has been named mgr. of the division's market-surveys dept. Mr. Hitchings has been on the sales staff of the New York organization for 24 years.

Miller Container Corp., Louisville, Ky., is now wholly owned by The Mead Corp., Dayton, 0. It will be operated as a div. of Mead Containers, Inc., a sub. of Mead. The newly acquired concern manufactures corrugated shipping containers.

Mead also has recently purchased a substantial interest in Lamex, Inc., Nor-cross, Ga., manufacturer of polyethylene products for the textile, food and paper industries and for agriculture.

William P. White, Jr., has been appointed gen. mgr. of package engineering for Continental Can Co., New York. He will work with the sales and research-and-development depts. of the company's several divisions to determine the requirements and design of new packaging machinery to be used with Concan's packaging materials. He was formerly gen. mgr. of the firm's Hazel-Atlas Glass Div. and previously was v.p. of operations for the White Cap Co., a Concan subsidiary.

William R. Bolton was recently promoted to gen. sales mgr. for containers by Plax Corp., Hartford, Conn., maker of blow-molded plastic containers and oriented-polystyrene film and sheet. A.

K. Thorn is now gen. mgr. for film and sheet sales. E. S. Marsh succeeds Mr. Thorn as district sales mgr. in Chicago. Mr. Bolton's former position as sales mgr. for the New York district has been taken over by Gilbert B. Luce. Plax has established two new sales offices, one in Philadelphia with Russell E. Ames in charge and the other in Cincinnati with John W. McLaughlin supervising.

Warner-Lambert Pharmaceutical Co., Morris Plains, N.J., has established a new dept, to coordinate the merchandis-

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