Park Aerospace Corp. Announces Appointment of Kenneth Kim as Director of Program Management
October 08 2019 - 12:46PM
Park Aerospace Corp. (NYSE-PKE) announced the appointment of
Kenneth Kim as its Director of Program Management. In this
position, Mr. Kim will report to Mark Esquivel, Park’s Executive
Vice President and Chief Operating Officer.
Kenneth Kim joined Park Aerospace Corp. in
August 2016 as Technical Director of Aerospace Products. Prior to
joining Park, Mr. Kim served as Engineering and Quality Manager of
Leading Edge Composites, an aerospace composite parts company
located in Coatesville, Pennsylvania since 2015. Mr. Kim was
Operations Manager of Lancer Systems in Allentown, Pennsylvania
between 2012 and 2015, and was Director of Engineering for Lancer
Systems between 2007 and 2008. Mr. Kim served as Product
Integration and Support Engineering Manager of The Boeing Company
between 2008 and 2012. Mr. Kim was Engineering Manager at the
aerospace and defense companies of Greene, Tweed & Co. located
in Kulpsville, Pennsylvania between 1998 and 2006 and Busak &
Shamban located in Fort Wayne, Indiana between 1996 and 1998. Mr.
Kim served in the U.S. Army between 1991 and 1996 where he earned
the rank of Captain. Mr. Kim received an MBA from Pennsylvania
State University and a BA in Civil Engineering from the United
States Military Academy in West Point.
Park Aerospace Corp. develops and manufactures
solution and hot-melt advanced composite materials used to produce
composite structures for the global aerospace markets. Park’s
advanced composite materials include film adhesives (undergoing
qualification) and lightning strike materials. Park offers an array
of composite materials specifically designed for hand lay-up or
automated fiber placement (AFP) manufacturing applications. Park’s
advanced composite materials are used to produce primary and
secondary structures for jet engines, large and regional transport
aircraft, military aircraft, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs
commonly referred to as “drones”), business jets, general aviation
aircraft and rotary wing aircraft. Park also offers specialty
ablative materials for rocket motors and nozzles and specially
designed materials for radome applications. As a complement to
Park’s advanced composite materials offering, Park designs and
fabricates composite parts, structures and assemblies and low
volume tooling for the aerospace industry. Target markets for
Park’s composite parts and structures (which include Park’s
proprietary composite SigmaStrut™ and AlphaStrut™ product lines)
are, among others, prototype and development aircraft, special
mission aircraft, spares for legacy military and civilian aircraft
and exotic spacecraft. Park’s objective is to do what others are
either unwilling or unable to do. When nobody else wants to do it
because it is too difficult, too small or too annoying, sign us
up.
Additional corporate information is available on
the Company’s web site at
www.parkaerospace.com.
Contact: Donna D’Amico-Annitto
486 North Oliver Road, Bldg. ZNewton, Kansas
67114(316) 283-6500
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