Packaging Solutions Names French and Solberg to Executive Positions

Packaging Solutions Holdings, New York, N.Y., USA, has named Tim French COO, effective immediately. French has more than 25 years of experience in the packaging industry, 10 of them as a COO. As VP and GM at Pliant Corp., he was responsible for a $300 million division, overseeing multiple plants in several countries, and a 30-person sales team. Before Pliant, French was president and CEO of a Canadian-based manufacturing company, Snowbear Ltd., and before that was president and COO of PCL Packaging, with operations in both Canada and the U.S. He began his career as a plant manager at Uniplast Industries, another Canadian packaging firm.

Packaging Solutions Holdings also announced that Jon N. Solberg has been named VP for Business Development, effective immediately. Solberg will lead the company's initiatives in the cheese and meat packaging markets. He has extensive sales and supply chain experience in the packaging industry. Prior to Packaging Solutions Holdings, he was product applications manager at PCC Industries. In addition, he was a sales leader at Pliant Corp., international supply chain director at Commercial Packaging; and director of sales and marketing at American Plastics Co.

Packaging Solutions Holdings was founded by Wellspring Capital Management and industry veteran Harold Bevis. It is focused on packaging for the food, medical, and consumer markets. The company's first division was Jen-Coat, which supplies the food packaging, medical, and industrial markets with a wide range of extrusion laminated, extrusion coated, metalized, and adhesive laminated structures. Products include paper/foil laminations, film/foil laminations, film/film laminations, composite can laminations, coated nonwovens, coated papers, release liners and other specialty packaging materials.

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