Farr APC Appoints Goodspeed to Thermal Spray Market Manager

Farr Air Pollution Control (APC, Jonesboro, AR) appointed Scott R. Goodspeed to the newly created position of thermal spray market manager. Goodspeed has 36 years of sales, managerial and technical experience in the thermal spray industry. He most recently served as a regional sales manager for H.C. Starck, Inc. (Newton, Mass.), with responsibilities for material sales, thermal spray training and other programs. He has also held sales and management posts with Plasma Technology Incorporated, Praxair Surface Technologies, Miller Thermal, and Bay State Abrasives, Inc.

Goodspeed is a long-standing member of the International Thermal Spray Association (ITSA) and a past chairman (2001-3), vice chairman (1999-2001) and associate chairman (1990-6) of that organization. He is also a member of the American Society of Metals (ASM), the Thermal Spray Society (TSS), and the American Welding Society (AWS), where he served for many years on the Committee for Thermal Spraying (C2). He has 25 years' community service as a firefighter.

In his new post, Goodspeed will oversee all aspects of Farr APC's growing thermal spray dust collection business. Farr APC manufactures a full line of dust and fume collectors and filters that improve operating efficiency, enhance safety, and solve environmental compliance challenges for all types of thermal and flame spray processes.

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