Nick Sandland: Marketing and Sales Director,
“Nick played a key role in setting up direct sales and distribution structures for our TPE business in Europe, and in the U.S. he was instrumental in launching our highly successful Medalist® range of medical elastomers,” said Suresh Swaminathan, vice president in charge of the Thermoplastic Elastomer Division. “His extensive experience with both thermoplastic vulcanizate technology and automotive sealing systems, acquired before he came to Teknor Apex, is directly relevant to our recently acquired Sarlink® TPV range.”
A native of
Before joining Teknor Apex, Sandland spent eighteen years in the polymer industry, including ten as a technical service chemist for Zeon Europe’s range of elastomers. He served in other technical positions with Metzeler Automotive Profiles, Dunlop Precision Rubber, and Federal Mogul Sealing Systems.
After completing a six-year course at
Elizabeth Ponte: Marketing Manager,
“Liz brings to her new role twelve years of experience in research, engineering, sales, and marketing,” said Sachin Sakhalkar, director of strategic marketing. “She has demonstrated a great capacity for strategic thinking and strength in developing new business.”
Elizabeth Ponte joined Teknor Apex in 2001 as a process engineer for the Vinyl Division; was assistant production manager for the former Rubber Division; served the Thermoplastic Elastomer Division as consumer-product market manager; and until now has been sales representative for the Bioplastics Division’s Terraloy™ compounds.
One of her positions before coming to Teknor Apex was that of quality engineer in the plastics division of Volkswagen AG in a year-long work-study program, the
Ponte holds an MBA in marketing from the
