Agru America, Inc. announces two recent managerial changes. Melissa Grace will be assuming the role of Business Unit Manager for the company鈥檚 Fiber and Textiles Business Unit, and Chris Eichelberger鈥檚 role as VP-Technical Marketing will be expanded to include the oversight of technical marketing associated with the complete Geosynthetics product line, which will now include the revolutionary ClosureTurf庐 solution.
Mr. Robert Johnson, President of Agru America, Inc. stated, 鈥淢elissa is ideally suited to her new position, with her degree in Polymer and Fiber Engineering, and her experience in market and business development, sales management and product and process improvements in the geosynthetics field.鈥� 聽As Business Unit Manager, Melissa will be responsible for developing new business and interfacing between the geosynthetics sales staff and the Agru America Andrews production plant and QC lab, as well as leading product development and providing technical support to customers and other Agru personnel. 鈥淢elissa joined Agru in 2012 and continues to be an important asset to our Agru Team,鈥� continued Mr. Johnson.
Melissa can be reached via email at or by cell at 250-736-9848.
Chris, who recently joined Agru America, has over 14 years experience in the geosynthetics industry in a variety of roles including constructability reviews, installation of products, project management, contract administration, specification and material selection, and field experience in CQA of soils and geosynthetic materials. 聽Also, Chris has previously worked with large environmental construction and geotechnical engineering firms. 聽Mr. Johnson remarked, 鈥淎s Vice President of Technical Marketing, Chris will utilize his technical expertise to develop, present and implement client solutions in collaboration with our Technical Geosynthetics Team. 聽We are very happy to have Chris with us here at Agru.鈥� Chris can be reached via email at or by cell at 330-606-8970.
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