Trexel Inc.

Trexel Inc., Wilmington, Mass., has named a former executive of Synventive Molding Solutions, a hot-runner company, to serve as its president and CEO.

Brian Bechard is a graduate of the United States Military Academy and Harvard Business School. He will work to further market Trexel's foam molding technologies for lightweighting parts.

"I'm excited to be joining Trexel, whose technologies are aimed at solving some of the major challenges facing injection molders — making plastic parts lighter, improving dimensional stability and reducing production costs," Bechard says.