Member News from Thermodyn Global

Continuing their rebranding efforts from 2015, Thermodyn Global Sealing has beefed up their sales staff for the coming year.

Throughout the last year, the Houston-based company has been undergoing a metamorphism with its parent company Thermodyn Corporation formally taking over the day-to-day managing of the business. Thermodyn opened in 1979 in Toledo, Ohio and has a long reputation for being an original Viton distributor and its custom made expansion joints. They opened Global Sealing in Houston in 1999 to service the growing needs of the energy industry in the southwest. Now branded Thermodyn Global Sealing, the company continues to be a leader in serving the oil and gas industry’s commercial gasket material needs, carrying a full line of elastomeric materials for quick delivery in their 55,000 square foot facility.

To boost their new efforts, Thermodyn Global Sealing has hired a fleet of new sales staff as the New Year begins. The two main hires include Jim Falls as their new national sales manager and Jim Briggs as manager for their new engineered coated fabrics division. Both are longtime industry veterans whose expertise will help launch the company's new era.

Falls arrives at TGS with more than 30 years of experience in the rubber sales industry. Falls has served in a variety of national sales and marketing management and product management positions. Falls brings an entrepreneurial spirit to Thermodyn, having also begun successful startups within the rubber business. Falls new position puts him in charge of sales and marketing efforts for both of the company’s stores. Thermodyn Vice President Jeff MacMillan said he’s excited to parlay his long standing relationship with Falls with this new business opportunity.

“We cannot believe how lucky we are to have him,” MacMillan said. ” He’ll be a game changer for us, especially at our Houston operation.”

Briggs, whose formal title is Director of Engineering Coated Fabrics Division, will be expanding the company’s footprint in the marketplace and engineering solutions and alternative applications for these products. Working with engineered fabrics is old hat for the company with a long history of combing Viton with fiberglass, aramids and other diaphragm materials as well as using high tech coated fabrics in its expansion joint production. However, a dedicated division devoted to the products is new territory for the company. Briggs has 30 years of field experience with previous stints at Longwood Elastomers, Fiberweb and Fairprene. At that latter stop, Briggs earned a reputation for technical development and problem solving for a broad range of metering, gasket, medical and sealing applications. Briggs attended North Carolina State University earning a degree in Textiles. His unique educational background gives TGS something it’s never had before–a degreed expert in the field. MacMillan said that while TGS has always prided itself on having great, knowledgeable people representing the firm, Briggs gives them a level of in-house expertise they’ve never had before.

"He's a walking technical division. His experience will allow us to develop new technologies for new markets," MacMillan said.