The recent SPE Thermoforming Awards Dinner recognized many of the great leaders who have helped make the industry what it is today and also looked to thermoform-ing's future by awarding scholarships. Bill Kent of Brown Machine was named 2014 Thermoformer of the Year. He has been in thermoforming for more than 50 years, starting work at Brown Machine in 1961, where he worked with Gaylord Brown. Kent began as a technician and was soon traveling the world as a sales engineer. In 1985, he was named Vice President of Advanced Technology and remained in management at Brown Machine until he retired in 2012. Kent was a founding member of the SPE Thermoforming Board in the early 1980s and was re-elected to the Board of Directors in 1998, which he served on until 2011.
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