Tessy Plastics Names New President

Global injection molder and contract manufacturer Tessy Plastics Corp. has named Stafford Frearson as president, replacing owner Roland Beck, who will now assume the role of CEO. Founded in 1973 by Beck’s father, Henry Beck, Tessy has grown to include 13 locations in New York, Pennsylvania and Shanghai. Roland took over as president from his father in 2002 and over the next two decades grew the company to more than $500 million in annual sales while expanding its footprint to eight facilities across central New York state; three in Webster, New York; one in Erie, Pennsylvania; one in Meadville, Pennsylvania; and two in Shanghai.

Frearson has been with Tessy since 1997, most recently serving as the vice president of engineering. Raised in Barnstable, England, Frearson worked part-time at a mold manufacturer while attending school and throughout college. Upon graduating from North Devon Community College in the U.K. in 1997, Frearson relocated to Syracuse, New York, and joined Tessy.

Frearson was promoted into management roles and named vice president of engineering in 2018. In that post, he oversaw research and development, the tool room, engineering, automation and the information technology departments within Tessy in addition to managing the acquisitions of two primary Tessy subsidiaries: Tessy Automation and Tessy Tooling.

In total, all of Tessy’s FDA/GMP compliant manufacturing space covers more than 3.2 million ft², including 320,000 ft² of ISO Class 7 and 8 clean rooms, serving the medical, pharmaceutical, diagnostics and consumer health care and consumer markets.