Plastics Executive Paul Clark Honoured by Chemistry Society

Plastics executive and organization volunteer Paul Clark was honoured by the Canadian section of the Society of Chemical Industry (SCI) at a gala industry dinner in Toronto on March 4.

Before a packed room, Serge Lavoie, president and CEO of the Canadian Plastics Industry Association (CPIA) presented Clark with the Purvis Memorial Award. The award — honouring the memory of Arthur Blaikie Purvis, a leader in the Canadian chemical industry in the 1920s and 1930s — recognizes major contribution to development and implementation of strategies resulting in the strengthening of Canadian industry in the field of chemistry.

The recently retired Clark enjoyed a diverse career in the chemical industry in Canada. For years the vice president of research and technology at Calgary, Alta.-based Nova Chemicals Corporation, Clark was also a past chairman of the CPIA; a board member of the Alberta Research and Technology Authority, and of the National Research Council of Canada; chairman of the Innovation Management Association of Canada; a member of the University of Waterloo Advisory Council; and, more recently, president of Vision- Gain Consulting Inc.