Tessy Plastics President Stafford Frearson [Photo courtesy of Tessy Plastics]
Frearson joined the contract manufacturer in 1997 and was promoted to his most recent role, VP of engineering, in 2018. He’s now responsible for day-to-day business operations across the plastics company’s 13 locations in the U.S. and China.
Beck is the owner of Skaneateles, New York-based Tessy. His father, Henry Beck, was one of the family business’s co-founders in 1973.
The younger Beck became president in 2002, and under his leadership annual revenue has grown to more than $500 million and expanded its footprint to eight facilities in Central New York; one in Erie, Pennsylvania, one in Meadville, Pennsylvania; and two in Shanghai, China.
Tessy Plastics owner and CEO Roland Beck [Photo courtesy of Tessy Plastics]
As VP of engineering, Frearson oversaw the R&D, tool room, engineering, automation and IT departments. He also managed the acquisition of Tessy subsidiaries Tessy Automation and Tessy Tooling.
“Throughout my career I’ve been privileged to work alongside some of the most talented people in the injection molding industry,” Frearson said in the release. “Watching, listening, and learning alongside an amazing group of people has helped shape not only my career, but also me personally.I am excited for the next chapter in my career with Tessy and to continue building on the success of both Henry and Roland.”
Tessy specializes in injection molding and custom automated assembly solutions and provides product design and development, rapid prototyping, tool design and build, medical automation design and build, plastic injection molding, and complex medical and consumer device assembly services. The company’s facilities are FDA/GMP compliant, totaling more than 3.2 million ft², including 320,000 ft² for ISO Class 7 and 8 clean room manufacturing.
