Class 2001
County Achievement Awards
Berkshire County
Bronley S. Boyd
Boyd Converting Company
Bronley S. Boyd founded Boyd Converting Company Inc. in October 1979. The company is a supplier to industrial customers of high value-added non-woven and specialty paper products, and converting services for very technical applications. Its manufacturing plant, containing its clean-room, slitting, rewinding, sheeting, die-cutting, and ultrasonic bonding lines and adjacent warehouse are located in South Lee, Massachusetts. The company specializes in products which require precision manufacturing within a controlled clean-room environment for customers with strict documentation procedures. In many cases, the product becomes a component of the customer's product; for example, capacitor paper in electrolytic capacitors, coil insulation paper in electric coils, wipers inside floppy disks, wipers on equipment making electrical circuit boards and ceramic capacitors, and the release paper on Band-Aids. In 1988 the company expanded its marketing and product development department, and strengthened the organization in the areas of quality control, customer service, and production planning in order to serve the specialty materials markets. Boyd Converting Company, Inc. has grown to a workforce of 85 employees, almost doubling its personnel in the past five years to meet customer demand. ISO 9002 certification was obtained in 1997.
The successes of Boyd Converting Company, Inc. reflect the quality attitudes of its founder, Bronley S. Boyd, who extends his leadership in volunteerism into the Berkshire County community. Bronley Boyd was a Trustee of Berkshire Health Systems from 1985 to 1996. He was Chairman of the Board of Fairview Hospital, a subsidiary of Berkshire Health Systems, from 1994 to 1996. Currently he is a school committee representative from Stockbridge for the Berkshire Hills Regional School District. He is a master swimmer and enjoys tennis and golf.