Bryan Elwick, site manager at the Grimsby / UK facility of Styropack (UK) (Blackburn / UK; www.styropack.co.uk), has been transferred to Synbra Technology (Etten-Leur / The Netherlands; www.synbra-technology.nl) where he will help facilitate the roll-out of the Synbra group innovation portfolio in the UK. According to Synbra Technology managing director Jan Noordegraaf, “Bryan’s expertise and experience in processing expanded polystyrene (EPS) will be invaluable in the final stages of developing our two new materials “Xire” and “BioFoam“. Xire is an insulation material produced from expanded glass pearls and BioFoam is expandable polylactic acid. Both companies are subsidiaries of Synbra Holding (Etten-Leur / The Netherlands; www.synbra.com).