NORTH TONAWANDA, N.Y.,
March 22, 2018 /PRNewswire/
-- Taylor Devices, Inc. (NASDAQ SmallCap: "TAYD")
announced today that Douglas P.
Taylor will retire as President and Richard G. Hill will retire as Executive Vice
President effective May 31, 2018, as
planned. The company also announced the appointment of Alan R. Klembczyk to President beginning
June 1, 2018.
Mr. Taylor has been the company's president since 1991. He
joined Taylor Devices, Inc. in 1971. Mr. Taylor previously was
President of Tayco Developments, Inc., an affiliate of Taylor
Devices, Inc., where he had been employed since 1966, and was
appointed President in 1991. He is widely published within the
shock and vibration community. Mr. Taylor has authored more than 75
technical publications on diverse topics ranging from automotive
crash safety to ship and spacecraft survivability. He is inventor
or co-inventor of 36 patents in the fields of energy management,
hydraulics, and shock isolation.
Mr. Taylor's accomplishments in the field of engineering have
been widely recognized. He was awarded the Franklin and Jefferson
Medal for his commercialization of defense technology developed
under the U.S. Government's Small Business Innovation Research
program in 1998. In 2006, Mr. Taylor was awarded the Dean's Award
for Engineering Achievement by the School of Engineering and
Applied Sciences at the State University of
New York at Buffalo. He was named Structural Engineer of the
Year (2006) by the Engineering Journal, "The Structural Design of
Tall and Special Buildings." The American Society of Civil
Engineers (ASCE) in 2015, awarded Doug the Moisseiff Award for
contributions to the science and art of structural design. Also, in
2015, Mr. Taylor was inducted into the Space Technology Hall of
Fame by NASA and the Space Foundation.
Doug is a founding member of the International Association on
Structural Control and Monitoring, a life member of the Association
for Iron and Steel Technology and has served on the ASCE committees
for Seismic Performance of Bridges and Blast Protection of
Buildings.
Richard G. Hill, currently
Executive Vice President of the Company, has been with Taylor
Devices since 1978 and was appointed Vice President of Taylor
Devices, Inc. in 1991. In April of 1991, Mr. Hill was appointed to
the Board of Directors of Taylor Devices, Inc. He has held key
project management positions with the Company on major aerospace
and defense contracts.
Mr. Hill has served on the Founding Board of Directors of the
Center for Competitiveness of the Niagara Region and the Advisory
Board to The Center for Industrial Effectiveness. Mr. Hill
served as Chairman for the Manufacturers Council of the Buffalo
Niagara Partnership and served on the State
University of New York at Buffalo's UB Business Alliance
Advisory Board, as well as holding the seat of Secretary.
Alan R. Klembczyk has spent the
last 30 years employed at Taylor Devices, spending most of his
career managing the engineering department along with designing and
developing shock and vibration mitigating products for a diverse
customer base. His roles have included serving as Design Engineer,
Assistant Chief Engineer, Chief Engineer and currently, Vice
President of Sales & Engineering.
Alan has published several papers describing unique applications
for structural dampers, tuned mass dampers, vibration isolators,
shock absorbers and isolators. He holds US Patents for some of
these components. For several years he has served on the Technical
Advisory Group for the Shock and Vibration Information &
Analysis Center and the Shock and Vibration Exchange.
Taylor's website can be visited at: www.taylordevices.com
; with company newsletters at
www.taylordevices.com/press-releases.html . Additional
information can also be found at www.seismicdamper.com .
Taylor Devices, Inc.
Contact:
Artie Regan
Regan & Associates, Inc.
(212) 587-3005 (phone)
(212) 587-3006 (fax)
info@reganproxy.com
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