Plastics recycler and processor Maine Plastics Inc. (MPI), Zion, Ill., has named David Spitulnik its new president. For the past three years, Spitulnik has served as a business consultant with the Chicago-based audit, tax and consulting services company Blackman Kallick, working with clients in the plastics industry.
Spitulnik, who earned an MBA from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management, previously was a vice president with Motorola, spending more than 15 years with the company in a variety of business development roles.
Robert Render, who had held the post of MPI president since 1996, is now CEO of A Greener Solution LLC, a landfill avoidance and recycling consulting firm that is also based in Zion, Ill.
MPI Executive Vice President David Kaplan has been named CEO of Maine Plastics.
The company processes more than 120 million pounds of plastics annually and has plants in Zion and Kankakee, Ill.; Schoolcraft, Mich.; Dover, Del.; Apex, N.C.; Richmond, Va.; and Stratford, Conn. Plants in Columbus and Kearney, Neb., are scheduled to open in February of 2011.
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