Penn Color Announces New Appointments - Reusable Packaging News

(Doylestown, PA,) – Penn Color is pleased to announce the appointment of Vicki Irons to the position of Key Account Manager and Simon Clarke to the position of European Industry Manager, Packaging. Vicki and Simon will join Penn Color’s packaging commercial team and will play key roles in the expansion and development of partnerships with brand owners.

“Vicki and Simon bring a wealth of experience to Penn Color,” said Kevin Putman, Penn Color’s President. “I am excited to have Vicki and Simon join us and strengthen our existing packaging sales team in the US, Europe, and Asia. I look forward to working closely with them: together, we will continue to grow and build our packaging business by strategically engaging the full value chain, including design agencies, equipment manufacturers, sustainability & recycling groups, converters, and brand owners.”

“I am excited to be joining a company with such a differentiated position in the industry,” says Vicki. “Penn Color is a global leader with extensive technical expertise and capabilities, both for colors and functional products. They bring an entrepreneurial mindset, which emphasizes the customer-centric approach and makes doing business easy. This sets Penn Color apart and, along with the new Design Centers in Hatfield in the US and Venray in Europe, it will be an exciting new experience for my customers as we help them develop products that stand out on the shelves.”

Simon highlighted, “the market is extremely fluid, the industry is consolidating: there’s never been a more appropriate time for me to talk to brand owners about change. For my customers, I look forward to putting to work Penn Color’s vitality in new product development and overall agility to support new and existing projects. In successful long term partnerships, customers will appreciate the intangible benefits of the highly dependable supply from Penn Color and the stable private ownership of the company.”

Vicki has more than 30 years of sales & business experience with global companies. Most recently as a Key Account Manager with Clariant’s Masterbatch Division. Prior to Clariant, Vicki worked as an Account Manager at BASF and Ciba in the pigment and additives business and held various positions at DuPont.

Simon has more than 30 years of technical, commercial, marketing & business development experience with global and local brand owners. Simon has held various business-critical roles within Clariant Masterbatches, for which he spent nearly 15 years of his 23-year term in Asia. Prior to Clariant, Simon has worked for Americhem UK (originally Colorfast plastics) where he was able to expand his color matching and technology experiences which led to customer and company successes.

About Penn Color

Penn Color provides color and additive concentrates, masterbatches, pigment dispersions, and engineered coatings. Our portfolio of wet and dry technologies offers the most diverse product line in the widest variety of markets. These include packaging, building & construction, automotive coating, extruded sheet and films, inks, wall covering, cosmetics, and fiber. Penn Color delivers unique solutions, with unrivaled levels of custom design.

Penn Color operates facilities in North America, Europe, and Asia, with sales and distribution partners across the rest of the world. Every Penn Color plant is fully integrated with each other to ensure the best possible product consistency from lot-to-lot and plant-to-plant.

Rick LeBlanc

Rick LeBlanc, EMBA, is the founder and editor of Reusable Packaging News (subscribe to the free newsletter) and editor of Western Pallet Magazine. A supply chain journalist with more than 30 years of experience, he specializes in pallets, reusable packaging, material handling and related operations. Rick is co-author of Pallets: A North American Perspective and Pallets & Progress: A Collected History of Pallets and Palletized Handling 1922–1945. He is also an advisory board member of the Virginia Tech Center for Packaging and Unit Load Design. Read Rick’s full bio.