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Marr adds Scottish dimension to plastics
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Faraday Plastics has added a seventh member to its newly formed team of technology translators.
Faraday Plastics (FP), the UK's plastics research and development centre, has added a seventh member to its newly formed team of technology translators Ian Marr, based in East Kilbride, Scotland and a graduate of Strathclyde Univeristy - a leading academic member of the FP initiative - joins as a Technology Translator
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 28 Sep 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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Richard Simpson, Faraday Plastics Director says: "Ian's appointment will channel and strengthen the Faraday Plastics outreach in Scotland.
Ian's extensive experience within industry and also inside Government will enhance our operations all across the board.
We are delighted to welcome him to the team".
Marr's experience includes extensive spells at the National Engineering Laboratory (NEL), with the Shell-Esso-NEL consortium, and with Scot-Tech, Scottish Enterprise Lanarkshire.
He is currently a director of MDP Associates, a private consultancy, and will be working as a Faraday Plastics technology translator.
Marr's specialist skills include developing commercial spin out companies from academic innovation.
The various technology translators in the new FP team have extensive experience in plastics academe and industry matters and each have been given specific responsibilities and subsectors within the overall project.
Richard Simpson, Faraday Plastics director says: "I cannot but reiterate that we are very pleased to be so far ahead in our recruitment tasks at Faraday Plastics and to have attracted such excellent candidates to the positions.
The technology translator job is a demanding and creative one.
It challenges our people to motivate the industry to create innovation for itself and in the marketplace.
I am very confident that our new Faraday Plastics team has the mettle to make this happen".
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