03.21.17
Oak Harbor, OH-based acpo, ltd., a manufacturer and supplier of pressure sensitive adhesive coated films to the narrow web printing and converting industry, has announced the naming of Tom Dupont as corporate R&D director.
Dupont has been with acpo for three years and has led the team in developing and commercializing multiple products lines, including High Barrier Flexible Packaging Films, Anti-Counterfeit Films, Laser Printable Films and Digital Overlaminates. He has over twenty years experience in the pressure sensitive tape industry. Prior to joining acpo, Dupont was plant manager at tesa tape, previously holding the positions of process engineering manager and coating/converting department manager. He was also the coating department manager at Spinnaker Coating and a technical associate at Akrosil.
Currently Dupont retains a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Clemson University, an MS in Aeronautical Engineering from the Air Force Institute of Technology, and an MA in Religious Education from the Grand Rapids Baptist Theological Seminary. In sharing his knowledge of the PSA tape industry, he was also a faculty member for the Pressure Sensitive Tape Council.
Dupont has been with acpo for three years and has led the team in developing and commercializing multiple products lines, including High Barrier Flexible Packaging Films, Anti-Counterfeit Films, Laser Printable Films and Digital Overlaminates. He has over twenty years experience in the pressure sensitive tape industry. Prior to joining acpo, Dupont was plant manager at tesa tape, previously holding the positions of process engineering manager and coating/converting department manager. He was also the coating department manager at Spinnaker Coating and a technical associate at Akrosil.
Currently Dupont retains a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Clemson University, an MS in Aeronautical Engineering from the Air Force Institute of Technology, and an MA in Religious Education from the Grand Rapids Baptist Theological Seminary. In sharing his knowledge of the PSA tape industry, he was also a faculty member for the Pressure Sensitive Tape Council.