EaglePicher Names Vice Presidents

EaglePicher Technologies LLC has named John Bennett as vice president and general manager, defense products, and Ron Nowlin as vice president and general manager, space, distributed products, boron and product development. Both have profit and loss responsibility for their respective businesses, and

Bennett is responsible for defense products in Joplin and Vancouver, Canada. He joined EaglePicher in 1984 as a project engineer in the thermal department. He became thermal quality assurance manager in 1987, thermal production manager in 1991, Rangeline facility manager in 1997, manager of strategic programs in 2002, and director of defense programs in 2003. He holds a B.S. in physics from Central Missouri State University.

Nowlin joined EaglePicher in 1996 as a contracts administrator and that same year was named contracts manager. In 1999, he became battery packaging manager. Later he was the plant accountant responsible for accounting and finance for the precision products department. He became director of commercial products in 2002, director of specialty materials in 2003, and director of product development and power solutions in 2005. Nowlin holds a B.S. from Pittsburg State University in Kansas and a U.S. patent.