Michael Stucky, business unit director, Norwood Medical, Bellbrook, Ohio, has been elected the 32nd president of the Metal Powder Industries Federation, succeeding Rodney Brennen, Metco Industries, St. Marys, Pennsylvania. His two-year term began at the conclusion of the Federation’s annual MPIF Business Meeting, October 28–30, in Louisville, Kentucky.

Michael Stucky

Stucky has worked at Norwood for the past 11 years. Previously, he worked for 11 years at NetShape Technologies and 10 years at PCC Airfoils, Inc. Stucky is very active within MPIF and the Metal Injection Molding Association (MIMA), having served on the MPIF Board of Governors as MIMA president. He is chairman of the MIMA Standards Committee, MIMA representative on the MPIF Technical Board, and was a co-chair of the PowderMet2023, MIM2017, and MIM2018 conferences. Over the years he has served on the PowderMet and AMPM Technical Program Committees. He received the Distinguished Service to Powder Metallurgy Award in 2019.

Two of the Federation’s six associations also instated new presidents following the Summit. Timothy Hackett, vice president, business segment manager – powder and clad, Kymera International, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, has been elected president of the Metal Powder Producers Association (MPPA) and will serve a two-year term. 

Stefan Joens, president, Elnik Systems, LLC, Cedar Grove, New Jersey, has been elected president of the Metal Injection Molding Association (MIMA) and will serve a two-year term.

The current president of the Powder Metallurgy Parts Association (PMPA) Nicola Gismondi, PMT, vice president sales and marketing, MPP, Noblesville, Indiana, has been re-elected to a second two-year term. 

The current president of the Association for Metal Additive Manufacturing (AMAM), Christopher Adam, PMT, president and chief executive officer, VALIMET Inc., Lodi, California, has also been re-elected to serve a second two-year term.

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