A new president for BPF

The managing director of Plastribution, Mike Boswell, has been elected as the new president of the British Plastics Federation (BPF), the trade association for the UK Plastics Industry, with over 450 members and 1200 affiliated members. He succeeds Philip Watkins who has held the post since 2011.
Boswell has been a longstanding chairman of the BPF's Polymer Distributors and Compounders Group and has served both on the BPF's Council and Strategy and Finance Committee. He joined Plastribution (a company which distributes plastic materials in the UK) as a technical sales representative in 1988 and progressed up the ladder to his current position, becoming managing director in 2000.