People… (May 20, 2008)

Pittsfield, Mass.-based engineering plastics supplier SABIC Innovative Plastics has named Charlie Crew as president and chief executive officer. Crew replaces Brian Gladden, who is leaving the company to become head of computer giant Dell Inc.

Resin supplier PolyOne Corporation, of Cleveland, Ohio, has named Waverly McFarland as marketing director, value-added services; and Marc Imowitz as director of strategic pricing.

ZL Engineering Plastics Inc. has named David A. Dunn to the position of national sales manager for ZL East, responsible for growing stock shapes sales to plastic distributors throughout Canada and the eastern U.S. He will be based out of the company’s office in Peekskill, N.Y.

Keith Jackson, well-known in Canada’s plastics industry for his decades of work in servicing injection molding and blow molding machines, died May 20. He had been ill with cancer for several years.