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Aylsworth, Jonas
Bachner, Edward F.
Bacon, Clare E.
Baekeland, Leo
Baer, Eric
Bailey, James
Beall, Glen
Beetle, Carl
Belcher, Sameul L.
Bishop, Richard
Black, Otis
Blount, Clint
Boeschenstein, H
Borro, Edward
Boyer, Raymond
Bradbury, Williamry
Bradt, Rexford H.
Breskin, Charles
Brown, Gordon
Burroughs, Charles
Carothers, Wallace
Chapman, Frank
Cleworth, C. W.
Condit, Charles
Conley, Fred
Cruse, William
Deanin, Rudolph
DeBell, John
Delmonte, John
Doak, Kenneth
Dow, Willard
Doyle, Bernard
Dreyfus, Camille
Dubois, J. Harry
Eastman, George
Ehlers, Russell
Ellis, Carleton
Erikson, Erik
Estabrook, Jr., F. R.
Flory, Paul
Forger, Robert
Foster, Joseph
Fox, Daniel W.
Gatto, Charles
Gigliotti, M. F. X.
Goggin, William
Goldsworthy, W.B.
Gore, Wilbert
Grebe, John
Griffith, Henry E.
Griffith, Palmer
Gross, Sid
Grote, Sr., Walter
Haine, Walter
Hanford, William
Harding, Ralph
Heckman, Jerome
Hemming, Emile
Hendrie, George
Hobson, Edwin L.
Hoffer, Robert
Hohl, John
Holz, Harold A.
Huidekoper, P.
Humphrey, G. P.
Huntsman, Jon
Hyatt, John Wesley
Hyde, J.F.
Jennings, Garland
Karol, Frederick J.
Kavanaugh, Lionel
Keville, John
Kleiderer, C. W.
Kline, Gordon M.
Kretzschmar, J. R.
Kruder, George A.
Kwolek, S. L.
Land, Edwin H.
Lankton, Gordon
Lester, William M.
Lubin, George
Maccaferri, Mario
Maddock, Bruce H.
Mark, Herman F.
Marra, Frank S.
Marshall, Abraham
Martinelli, Guy A.
Marvel, Carl Shipp
McGrath, James E.
Morrison, Robert S.
Muehlstein, Herman
Nalle, Jr., George S.
Nissel, Frank R.
Ott, Emile
Palmer, Spencer E.
Peters, Don. L.
Pitcher, Arnold E.
Plueddemann, E.
Plunkett, Roy J.
Porter, Roger S.
Quarnstrom, Ivar
Rahm, Louis Frank
Reib, John C.
Reinhart, Frank W.
Richardson, Henry
Robertson, Harold
Rosato, Dominick V.
Rowan, Sr., Edward
Rubens, L.C. "Bud"
Rubin, Irvin I.
Schwab, Fred E.
Scribner, George K.
Seabury, R. W.
Semon, Waldo L.
Seymour, R. B.
Shaw, Frank H.
Shaw, Louis E.
Sherwood, Miller G.
Slater, John G.
Spaak, Albert
Stein, Richard S.
Stott, Lewis L.
Stoughton, T. S.
Swedlow, David A.
Thomas, Islyn
Tupper, Earl S.
Von Holdt, John
Whitlock, Carl
Willert, William H.
Wyeth, N. C.
Zimmerman, A. S.
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John Von Holdt - Hall of Fame Entry
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Author: Plastics Academy Staff
Added: 03/29/2004
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 John Von Holdt - Hall of Fame Entry
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John Von Holdt
Birthdate:
1919
Deceased:
1998
Induction:
1999 Industry Areas:
Material, Management |
John von Holdt was born on August 14, 1919 in Chicago. He attended Senn High School where he became "All-Around Gymnastics City Champion". After graduation, in 1937, he began his lifelong career in the Tool and Die and Moldmaking industry by apprenticing in various Chicago area machine shops. He also completed the Plastics engineering Program at northwestern University Technological Institute.
In September 1944, he was inducted into the United States Army and was assigned to the Pacific Theater during World War II. He served as a Lieutenant in the Army Corps of Engineers in the Phillipine Islands and in Korea.
In 1950 he founded Plas-Tol Co. of Niles, Illinois and built it into one of the finest specialty moldmaking companies in the U.S. with mold exports to Europe, North and South America and the Far East.
He was recognized as one of the most inventive and creative moldmakers, having received over 55 United Stated patents and hundreds of corresponding foreign patents in the fields of mold and plastic product design. From 1969 - 1971 he served as National Chairman of the Moldmaker's Division of the society of the Plastics Industry and was much sought after keynote speaker at many of the technical and business conferences in the plastics industry. Mr von Holdt was the only three-time winner of the prestigious "Bachner Award" for plastic product design. In 1990 he was presented with the Society of Plastics Engineers "Mold Maker of the Year award". The following year he was unanimously nominated by his peers to receive the moldmaking "Industry Achievement Award" which was presented to him at the tri-annual banquet by The Plastics Academy.
His wife, Pauline, daughter, Janice Anderson , son John Jr., granddaughter Christine Newton, and grandsons Alexander von Holdt survive him. |
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