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Published on: 8/15/2006
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Outen takes helm at Dugdale
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15 August 2006 - David Outen has been appointed managing director of Dugdale, the Sowerby Bridge-based technical PVC compound and dry blends manufacturer.
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Outen is well known in the PVC industry and to the current directors at Dugdale having been managing director of Vita Thermoplastics Compounds, previously Doeflex Vinyl, where Bickerton, Durkin and John Salmon, sales & marketing director, worked for many years.
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Originally employed as quality manager in 1991, Outen, who has a degree in Chemistry and Polymer Science/Technology from Loughborough University, took the helm at Doeflex in 2001.
Over the past five years the owners of Dugdale have invested over £2.5 million in new plant and reorganisation at the company's site, near Halifax.Three new Buss extruders, handling plant and a dedicated development machine have been installed and a range of rigid PVC materials successfully introduced.