Düsseldorf, Germany — At K 2016, Michael Mehnert had just joined the upper management ranks of Bekum Maschinenfabriken GmbH, an extrusion blow molding technology business started by his father, ...

Plastics Hall of Famer Martin Stark has retired as chairman of Bekum America Corp. after 50 years in the industry, mostly with the U.S. operations of the German extrusion blow molding machinery ...