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News from Suppliers
Cryovac Food Packaging, a division
of Sealed Air Corp., Duncan, S.C., was
recently awarded five 2006 Top Packaging Awards from the Flexible Packaging Association. Cryovac's Simple
Steps package for produce received a
Gold Award in Technical Innovation;
the Compression Pack for Cryovac
Dri-Loc pads received a Gold Award
for Environmental Achievement; the
saddle pack-style poultry package received Silver Awards in both Packaging
Excellence and Technical Innovation;
and the Cryovac iBag shrink package
using InfoWrap technology received a
Silver Award for Technical Innovation.
Robert Reiser & Co.,
Canton, Mass., has appointed Tim Moskal
to the newly created
positions of thermal
processing
manager
and corporate account
Moskal
manager. As the thermal processing manager, he will be responsible for sales of the Vemag thermal processing product line in North
America. Additionally, Moskal will be
responsible for sales of all Reiser product lines to Kraft Foods (Convenient
Meals), Sara Lee (Packaged Meats),
and Bar-S Foods. He previously served
as the director of sales at Alkar-RapidPak for 16 years.
Hansen Technologies Corp., Burr
Ridge, Ill., has hired Thomas J. Lemar
as the new director of North American
sales and marketing. His experience
spans more than 18 years in the refrigeration industry, previously managing
sales and product at Krack Corp.
Stephen Radke has been promoted to
account manager for the Processed
Foods Group of FMC FoodTech,
Chicago. His responsibilities include
managing customer requests and
providing solutions and support for the
Northeast region of the United States
and eastern Canada. Over the past 18
months, he worked within the Freezer
Sales Support Group as an application
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CFS, The Netherlands,
kicked off construction
of its new CFS factory in
Kempten-Bühl, Germany,
with a groundbreaking ceremony. The new building
will have a 71,000-squarefoot production floor and
an additional 23,500 square
feef for offices. Beginning in September, 240 employees will work in the new
building to produce peeling, slicing, loading and traysealing equipment.

engineer, where he was responsible
for sizing and costing of freezing
systems and technical support to the
sales force.

Gourley

Steven Gourley has
joined Computerway
Food Systems, High
Point, N.C., as a fabricator. He is responsible
for fabricating stainless
steel equipment.

Javier Jimenez has
joined Dapec, Canton,
Ga., as regional sales
manager for Mexico. In
the position, he handles
sales for the complete
line of poultry processJimenez
ing equipment and its
support services. Javier brings several
years of sales experience in the poultry
processing industry, in addition to his
past service as corporate manager of
quality assurance for a major poultry
processor. He also previously worked
for Dapec.
After more than 14 years as the global
head of Geneva, Switzerland-based
Givaudan's Flavors Division, Mike
Davis has announced his decision to
retire, effective June 30. Concurrently
with his retirement, Mauricio Graber
has been appointed as global head of
the Flavors Division, effective July 1.
Davis' career has spanned 30 years
in the flavors industry. In 1992, upon
the formation of Tastemaker, he as-

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sumed the position of president and
C.E.O. and held that position until
Givaudan acquired the company in
April 1997. In 1999, he was named
president of Givaudan Flavors. Graber
began his career with Givaudan in 1995
as managing director for Latin America with Tastemaker. Upon the merger
of Tastemaker with Givaudan Roure,
Graber became the managing director
for Mexico, Central America and the
Caribbean before taking over as vice
president for Latin America in 2000.
Orkin Commercial Services, Atlanta,
has been accepted as a supplier member to the American Association of
Meat Processors, Elizabethtown, Pa.
Hixson, a Cincinnati-based architecture, engineering and interior design
firm, has hired Scott Wever and Brandon
Norton. Wever joins Hixson as a senior
project engineer in the Manufacturing
Engineering Department. Wever will design production and packaging systems
and specify, evaluate, and recommend
specific equipment on behalf of Hixson's
clients in the food and beverage industry.
For the past 13 years, Wever has served
as a project engineer in the Food & Beverage division of Sara Lee Corp.
Norton joins Hixson as an automation engineer and will work with a
number of software packages to perform automation and controls systems
design, specification, programming,
simulation and testing, and start-up assistance. He previously was worked for
General Mills.

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