Names in the News, Feb. 13

Polyester and polypropylene film extruder Toray Plastics (America) Inc. (North Kingstown, RI) named Chad Hedden the national sales manager for the company’s Torayfan Division. He most recently served as a manager in Toray’s Strategic Alliance Group, and joined Toray in 2006 as a product manager in the Torayfan division.

Hedden succeeds Christopher Voght who now serves as sales manager for Toray Films Europe S.A.S. (TFE) in Rhône-Alpes, France.

Toray Plastics (America) Inc. is driving the company’s development and commercialization of TFE’s bi-axially oriented polypropylene high-barrier metallized film technology.