Woburn, MA—On October 4, 2004, Kent Kipling joined Xenon Corporation in the newly created position of Vice President of Operations. According to Louis Panico, Xenon Corporation’s CEO, Mr. Kipling will be responsible for overseeing all manufacturing, engineering, quality and plant functions.
Kent Kipling comes from the Maryland facilities of Fusion Lighting and Fusion Systems, where he served for eleven years as Sr. Vice President and Corporate Secretary (Fusion Lighting) and for one year as Vice President (Fusion Systems). Kipling directed the spinout of Fusion Lighting from Fusion Systems, and was responsible for all operations there, including R&D, product development, manufacturing and general management. He played a key role in developing, manufacturing and marketing the company’s high efficiency electrodeless sulfur lamp.
Kipling’s immediate focus will be on product quality and to prepare the company’s new, low cost curing system for full market release.
Kent Kipling holds a BSEE from The University of Akron (Akron, Ohio) and an MBA from Kent State University. He and his wife Peggy will be moving to Massachusetts from Montgomery Village, Maryland.
Xenon Corporation, the market leader in DVD bonding, also designs and manufactures high-performance, mercury-free, pulsed UV flashlamps and curing systems for applications requiring deep penetration, rapid and complete cures with low substrate temperatures. Xenon Corporation provides pulsed UV light treatment systems for sterilization and decontamination in applications that traditionally use continuous wave mercury lamps and others that require gamma radiation, heat and chemicals for products requiring USP sterility assurance levels.

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