around the industry People APC Filtration Hires Manager Chris Williams has been hired as the global business devel-opment manager for APC Filtration Inc.ʼs original equipment manufacturer (OEM) filter division. Williams will work from the Commerce Township, Michigan, office and will be responsible for industrial, commercial and domestic appliance air filter sales. Chris Williams SMA Welcomes New Board Member Strategic Market Alliance (SMA) is pleased to announce that Gene Melzer has joined the Gene Melzer SMA Board of Directors. Melzer is president and chief executive officer (CEO) of New Berlin, Wisconsin-based NASSCO Inc., one of the leading independent JanSan distributors in the Midwest United States. Spartan Promotes Two Employees Spartan Chemical Company Inc. is pleased to announce the promo-tions of Tina Serio and Erica Kurfis in the adver-Tina Serio tising/marketing depart-ment, a realignment that will allow Spartan to update technology marketing efforts and bet-ter support their distribution network. Serio assumes respon-sibility for general depart-ment oversight, creative input and marketing tech-nology integrations and Kurfis will manage all of the day-to-day operations of the advertising/mar-Erica Kurfis keting department. News Gent-L-Kleen Celebrates 60th Anniversary Founded in 1949 by C.E. Strickler, Jr., Gent-L-Kleen Products Inc. celebrates its 60th anniversary during 2009. Gent-L-Kleenʼs early production was formu-60th Anniversary lated in a 20-gallon ceramic crock with a wooden paddle in the basement of Stricklerʼs home, which can now be found in the plantʼs lobby show-case. CM Circle Product Information no. 206 on page 32 6 CM/Cleaning & Maintenance Management ® • September 2009
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