AKRON—Smithers has promoted Mike Kelly and hired Jeff Wible to join its physical rubber testing laboratory in Akron.
The firm said Kelly will become a project engineer, specializing in dynamic mechanical analysis testing and new DMA method development. He joined Smithers in 2015 as a test engineer in the product testing laboratory.
Wible will join the team as a test engineer and will serve as quality coordinator for the physical properties and product testing labs. He comes to Smithers with more than 20 years of experience working in physical and mechanical testing of materials, components and medical devices.