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Byline: Angie DeRosa
Salvador Vassallo, the affable, charismatic figurehead of Vassallo Industries Inc. in Ponce, Puerto Rico, died Jan. 20 at his Puerto Rican home from a heart attack.
He was 64.
Vassallo, known to all as "Chiry,'' joined with his brothers and his father, Vincente Vassallo, in 1962 to start the company in PVC pipe extrusion. From 1962 through 2007, Chiry Vassallo led the company into every process except vaccuum forming. The company now manufactures pipe and fittings, kayaks, blow molded containers for Pepsi-Cola and products for...
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