Richard Clay joins PCL as Area Sales Manager

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Polymer Compounders Limited (PCL) is proud to announce that Richard Clay is joining the company as Area Sales Manager.

Richard will mainly focus his work on the North of the United Kingdom, an area he knows well, to develop PCL’s relationships with thermoplastics moulders and Original Equipment Manufacturers in that region.

We are very pleased to have Richard join us. With his wealth of experience, his strong network of contacts in the industry and his extensive technical knowledge, he is the ideal addition to an already strong team, “said Grahame Houlder, Managing Director at PCL. “All our employees are hand-picked, and I believe we’ve succeeded to build the most formidable, highly trained team in Europe”, Grahame added.

– Grahame Houlder (Managing Director), 2016

Richard Clay, a Mechanical Engineer from Warwick University, has more than 20 years of experience in technical sales within the polymer and composite industry, including 14 years as an Advanced Development Specialist at GE Plastics. Before transferring to Polymer Compounders Limited, Richard focused on the Formula 1 and Automotive industries at TenCate Advanced Composites.

Polymer Compounders Limited is known to invest heavily in people and is recognised by Cogent, the Science Industry Partnership and the National Skills Academy for Process Industries for its ongoing commitment to improving skills in the workplace in the plastics industry.

It is PCL’s hope that Richard will enable PCL to develop further as a company; by bringing his knowledge and expertise to help us further our developments, such as the Notoxicom® family of products and our permanent antistatic ABS polymer;  ABSCOM® MS117AX.

Richard Clay joining is fantastic; I cannot wait to start developing products with him. Richard and I go back a long way and it will be lovely to start working with him once again. At a time when Polymer Compounders Limited is expanding and creating some truly innovative products.

– Stephen Blair (Technical Manager), 2016