PolyQuest appoints two senior vice presidents

PolyQuest Inc., a Wilmington, North Carolina-based distributor of polyethylene terephthalate (PET) resins and manufacturer of recycled PET resins, has promoted Ryan Nettles and Brad Willingham to senior vice presidents.

Nettles has been named senior vice president of operations and recycle. He will continue to lead PolyQuest’s operational and recycling efforts, contributing to strategic initiatives with business partners, enhancing product quality and performance and driving continuous improvement across the company’s recycling division.

Since joining PolyQuest in 2006, Nettles has demonstrated leadership of the company’s manufacturing and warehousing operations, according to a news release the company issued announcing the promotions. With his oversight, PolyQuest says it has grown its recycled production capacity to more than 160 million pounds per year and has become a trusted provider of rPET flake and resins and a toll processor of its customers’ material streams.

Willingham has been promoted to senior vice president of business development and will continue to drive growth into new products and markets for PolyQuest.

He joined the company in 2014, leading new business development. During his tenure, Willingham has expanded PolyQuest’s footprint into the specialty PET, postindustrial rPET, polystyrene and polypropylene markets. He has generated incremental value for the business partners of PolyQuest with his grasp of the technical aspects of the company’s products and market fundamentals, according to the news release.

“Ryan and Brad have both exhibited outstanding leadership within our company,” says Tod Durst, president of PolyQuest. “Their consistent interface with customers, suppliers and other business partners is consistent with our core values and a primary reason we have been able to successfully expand our business over the last decade. There is tremendous opportunity for PolyQuest to continue to grow in a variety of areas, including the distribution of virgin polyethylene resins and enhancement of our well-established business in recycled PET, with Ryan and Brad at the forefront of realizing our true growth potential.”

In addition to its Wilmington headquarters, PolyQuest has facilities in Darlington, South Carolina, and Farmingdale, New York, as well as a European office in Austria.