Plastics News, June 23rd, 2003
Byline: Bill Bregar
One thing about Albert Spaak: He gets things done.
"I'm results-oriented,'' said Spaak, 82, as he sat in his house in Little Falls, N.J., and reflected on a 65-year career. This week he enters the Plastics Hall of Fame.
Those results began in the Great Depression, when he got a draftsman's job at DeMattia Machine & Tool Co. in 1938. Spaak developed some of the first U.S.-built injection molding machines and early auxiliary equipment.
He later worked for the colorful Mario Maccaferri, whose Mastro Industries Inc. molded toy musical instruments in the Bronx. Then he too...
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