People in Composites: September 2021

CDI Energy Products announces new president

Clinton Metcalf, CDI Energy Products president.

On Sept. 7 CDI Energy Products (Houston, Texas, U.S.), a high-performance polymer components manufacturer, announced that Clinton Metcalf has been named president. Leonard Casey, who has been serving in a dual capacity as both the managing director of Advanced Sealing Technologies (AST, West Kingston, R.I., U.S.) and the president of the CDI Houston organization, will concentrate his energies on AST’s strategic objectives and business unit growth. CDI is one of the business units within the Advanced Sealing Technologies group inside Michelin’s High Tech Materials Division. As president, Metcalf will drive CDI’s Houston-based business and leverage collaborative growth opportunities for CDI’s full global footprint.

“Clint is the right leader for CDI’s next phase of growth and innovation,” says Casey. “His robust manufacturing background and business development skills will help CDI strengthen industry partnerships, develop strategic alliances and distribution channels and expand our global sales presence. We believe his strong leadership experience will help focus CDI’s efforts to develop new technologies and solutions while reflecting the commitment to our people and our planet without compromise.”

As a well-respected industry executive, Metcalf is reported to have deep functional experience in engineering, manufacturing, operations, product management and business development. Metcalf has an extensive background in leading global organizations, manufacturing and lean principles, technical and product line organizations and customer relationship management. He was employed for more than 24 years with TechnipFMC (London, U.K.) in various roles most recently as the senior vice president for manufacturing. Metcalf’s previous positions within FMC included director of operations, Subsea, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; vice president and general manager Measurement Systems, Hamburg, Germany; and general manager, and FMC/CDS Separation Systems, Americas Region.

“I am excited to be joining the CDI team,” says Metcalf. “CDI has a long history of reliability, integrity, service and trust working with some of the industry leaders in industries including energy, power generation, aerospace and defense and general industrial. Its remarkable team of pioneering professionals and highly skilled manufacturers are ready to take on new challenges and leverage diversified industry opportunities. I am eager to work with the team around a clear vision toward an improved future that strengthens our market share and delivers new solutions for our customers around the world.”

Metcalf received a Bachelor of Science degree in civil engineering from Texas A&M and a Master of Business Administration (MBA) from Rice University, Jones Graduate School of Business.

Massivit 3D appoints vice president of business development

Massivit 3D Printing Technologies (Lod, Israel) a provider of large-volume 3D printing solutions, has announced the appointment of Ben Arnold as the company’s global VP of business development. Arnold will join the Massivit 3D management team.

Arnold has been a veteran in the 3D printing industry since 2006. He has been part of several companies responsible for key industry innovations, including multi-material polymer printing, multi-laser metal printers, the evolution of powder-based metal printing and polymer-based composites. Ben brings his experience and insight to his role at Massivit 3D and will focus on expanding the company’s patented GDP and Cast in Motion technologies business.

“I am excited to join Massivit 3D during this time of growth,” says Arnold. “It was clear that this is an excellent opportunity and a great match between my experience and capabilities and Massivit 3D’s aspirations, rapid growth and evolution into additional market segments. I look forward to contributing to the company in its mission to transform manufacturing of large parts”

Massivit 3D notes that it is already a significant member of the global AM arena with a portfolio of large-scale 3D printing systems installed across 40 countries. Ben’s primary mission will be to spearhead Massivit 3D’s expansion into new strategic segments, establish partnerships to expand Massivit 3D’s market reach and offering, as well as build new innovation business models and plans to make the technology adoption as easy and seamless as possible.

“We are excited to bring Ben Arnold onboard to drive our introduction into new industries and segments. Our aim is to transform manufacturing of large parts,” adds Massivit 3D’s CEO, Erez Zimerman. “We continuously look for ways to make manufacturing of large parts faster, more efficient and more cost effective through digital processes and in line with Industry 4.0 needs to ultimately reduce lead times from weeks to days, and costs for manufacturers and service providers. We believe Ben is the right person to help us expand our business and capitalize on the combination of our groundbreaking current and future technologies, and growing market interest across multiple segments.

KraussMaffei welcomes new regional sales manager

Sean Doran, KraussMaffei regional sales manager.

The KraussMaffei (Munich, Germany) extrusion team welcomes Sean Doran as its newest regional sales manager. His focus for the company will be the northern U.S. as well as Canada for extrusion systems.

Sean brings with him nearly 27 years of experience in plastics machinery and systems sales, with most of this in the extrusion vertical markets. He recently came from AEC and Sterling, where his focus was international sales, which included all of Europe, Mexico and South America.

Sean holds an associate degree in electrical engineering, a Bachelor in business with a major in marketing and an MBA in finance.

He brings a wealth of knowledge to the KraussMaffei team and they are excited to have him.