AKRON—Rikki Lamba has been named vice president and general manager for Alpha Technologies.
Lamba has 18 years of experience in the elastomers industry. He has served as vice president of North American operations for Smithers Rapra and Smithers Pira; vice president of global development and technology for Excel Polymers; and vice president of carbon black technology and director of global marketing tire for Columbian Chemicals Co.
Lamba currently holds three patents.
Alpha Technologies specializes in designing, manufacturing and services precision rubber and polymer laboratory instrumentation and data acquisition/analysis software systems. It is a division of Dynisco.