New Miss. manufacturing officers

Michael Thomas, manager of Land, Government and Public Affairs of the North American Coal Corp. in Ackerman, has been named the 2015-16 Chairman of the Mississippi Manufacturers Association Board of Directors. Andrew Mallinson, CEO/Owner of Multicraft International in Pelahatchie, was named Secretary-Treasurer. Among some of the other members of the Executive Committee are Chairman-Elect Jim McIngvale, Government & Community Affairs Director, Ingalls Shipbuilding, Pascagoula; and Vice Chairman Earl Walker, Senior Director/Site General Manager-Mississippi of Airbus Helicopters, Inc., Columbus. (Source: Mississippi Business Journal 01/04/16)