tery case manufacturing business in Port Elizabeth, Willy now operates between the two cities.
New members on Plastomark board
Willy Nelson … started own company OA Agencies
Garth Maccallum has joined Mould Base SA, Dave Moore’s company, in Durban. Garth has been involved with injection moulding for many years and is well-known and liked in the industry. He will be concentrating on KZN and Eastern and Western Cape customers initially. If you have any mould base requirements please contact him on 074 589 3357 or sales@mouldbasesa.co.za.
Garth Maccallum … joined Mould Base SA
Brian Fetting has left Karob Manufacturing in Stormill, the blow moulding business (containers up to 25 litres) which he co-founded with Patrick McIwane in 2005.
With his five-year restraint of trade over, seemingly more rapidly than expected, Jack Doherty of West African Ventures fame is back. Now a septuagenarian, and hale and hearty at that, Jack has rented an office in Ballito on the KZN North Coast and is looking at a few things to help him pass the time! (The restraint of trade followed the purchase of West African group by Metmar Trading in 2008.) Carolyn Kellock is the new regional
Carolyn Kellock … joined Milliken
Michael Boltau of Lomotek in Midrand has resigned and left the industry and switched to the construction sector.
Paul Rogers has left Harveys Composites in Jet Park and moved into the security industry.
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Warren Grey and Greta Croll have been appointed directors of Plastomark and, as of March, joined the material supply business’s board. Warren joined Plastomark in 2000 as a sales representative, involved Warren Gray … joined distribution for then Dow, Plastomark now Safripol, as a sales board representative. In 2003 he was promoted to national sales manager. Warren began his career in the industry as a trainee sales representative with Bayer’s chemicals division. After five years he resigned and joined Greta Croll Plasgroup (which has … joined since closed down), a Plastomark convertor/manufacturer board of packaging products, where he spent a further six years before joining Plastomark. Greta began her career in the plastics industry in 2004 when she joined Plastomark as a PA. Within two years she was promoted to logistics manager, a position she holds today. Willy Nelson has started his own company, OA Agencies, specializing in ultrasonic welding. Willy represents RTUL of India, a leading manufacturer of ultrasonic welding equipment. Formerly with Hestico in Cape Town and prior to that in the bat-
manager for PP clarification specialist Milliken. She is the company’s new territory manager for plastic additives. Milliken is an American group operating internationally.
Surprise on island Brian Beckwith, formerly of Mattman/ National Rubber, who relocated to the idyllic Langkawi island off the northwest coast of Malaysia in 2011, had an unexpected surprise recently when thieves cleaned out his house. After 40 years in the SA rubber industry, Brian and his wife visited Malaysia on a few occasions and fell in love with the place, and then settled there.
Gone to Oz Rob Wainwright has left material supply company MBT and emigrated to Australia. His daughter and her family had settled in Brisbane earlier and he wanted to join his family there. He has been replaced at MBT by a young Portuguese-speaking salesman. APRIL / MAY 2013 71
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