HICKORY, N.C. (Feb. 3, 2011)-Dimitri Dounis, corporate director of marketing and foam research for Hickory-baaed Hickory Springs Manufacturing Co., has been elected president of the Polyurethane Foam Association.
Dounis is credited with the creation and development of the first commercial bio-content flexible polyurethane foam, the PFA said in a press release announcing Dounis' election.
A chemical engineering graduate of Michigan State University and Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Dounis worked as a research scientist for a polyurethane chemical supplier before joining Hickory Springs 10 years ago, the PFA said. Dounis has also published technical papers in several scientific journals.