Wayne Hays
INDA Lifetime Achievement Award
2001
EDUCATION
BS, Chemistry
University of Arkansas 1949
MBA
Northeastern University 1965
MILITARY
Pilot, Naval Air Corp.
1943-1945
WORK EXPERIENCE
3 Sinclair Oil & Gas Company 1949-1953
Okla, Texas
- Field Engineer
Callaway Mills Co. 1953-1959
La Grange, Georgia
- Research & Development
- Developed Nonwoven Products
Kendall Company, Nonwoven Products Division 1959-1982
Walpole, Massachusetts
- Research & Development
- Product Development
- Product Manager
- Marketing Manager
- Director of Marketing
- General Manager
- Helped develop and served as Charter President of Disposables Association
(now INDA) 1977-1978
The Lutravil Company (now Freudenberg Spunweb) 1982-1988
Durham, North Carolina
- Founder of J/V Company between Kendall/Colgate and Freudenberg West Germany
- President and CEO
POST RETIREMENT
1988-1991
Nonwoven Consultant to Freudenberg West Germany
1991-1993
Consultant to North Carolina State University
Helped found Nonwoven Cooperative Research Center (NCRC)
1995-1999
Consultant to INDA
1996
President of INDA
