REL, Inc. welcomes Chetwood Van Aken to the REL Team. Chetwood will be REL’s 'Principal Application Engineer'. "Chetwood's World Class Manufacturing expertise increases our value proposition and will allow us to manufacture more material handling equipment for our current and future partners in business. Chetwood has a lifetime of experience in manufacturing plants. Chet’s experience in understanding all of project variables from cost justification to design concepts based on his experience will allow us to increase our internal equipment design efficiency. These are exciting times!’ said Dr. Josh Loukus, President of REL, Inc.
Chetwood earned his BSCE from the University of Utah. He has served 16 years in Engineering, Research, and Manufacturing department head roles; and 19 years of Plant Management at multiple sites in companies Including: USG, Pabco, Celotex, Southdown Cement, Georgia Pacific and CertainTeed.