WORLD OF INDUSTRIES 05/2018 (EN)

W RLDWIDE NEWS
New sales director with international
expertise at NKE Austria
Austrian bearing manufacturer NKE Austria GmbH has appointed a
new sales director as of April 2018. Jesús Monforte, an engineer with
qualifications also in business administration, has extensive international
experience in industrial product and market development.
Before joining at NKE, Jesús Monforte was active at
ABB and Mann + Hummel in Spain, Asia Pacific
and Germany. He now brings his international
expertise to the Austrian bearing manufacturer,
which, together with Spanish
company Fersa Bearings established the
Fersa Group 2 years ago. Both NKE and
Fersa are active internationally in the
development, production and sales of
bearings for the global automotive and
industrial markets, with Fersa covering the
automotive and NKE the industrial sector. The
Group is represented on all continents, with 4
production sites, 6 distribution centres, 4 R&D facilities, as well as sales
offices and trade partners in more than 86 countries. Engineering,
product development, production and final processing of components,
assembly, quality assurance, logistics, and sales and marketing are
centralised at its Steyr headquarters.
Turck’s new sales
venture in South Africa
Turck and Banner Engineering have
established a new joint venture in South
Africa, by acquiring RET Automation
Controls, their long-standing sales
partner. The name of the new sales
company will be changed from RET
Automation Controls to Turck Banner
South Africa, and it will be managed by
Brandon Topham and Garth Cubitt,
previous RET shareholders. The 14
existing RET employees will also remain
in the new organization to keep providing
support and expertise to sales
partners and customers. The joint
venture in South Africa is a logical
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NEWS AND MARKETS
On to Optimize Supply Chain with
Setlog´s OSCA System
www.setlog.com
In order to make global delivery flows
transparent, the Switzerland-based
sports shoe manufacturer On AG
has introduced the supply
chain management software
Osca. The cloud-based SCM
system of Bochum-based
Setlog GmbH controls all
transport-relevant processes
from the order to the
delivery. The system
replaces e-mail and Excel
lists as the central communication
platform for all suppliers.
The first manufacturers in
Vietnam went live in May and China
will follow in the upcoming weeks.
continuation of both the company’s
dynamic internationalization process
over the last years. This is the first step on
the African continent, the joint ventures
in South Africa, Malaysia and Singapore
are not the first joint ventures of the two
companies. Turck and Banner have been
working together very successfully in
Europe with joint ventures in England,
France, and Italy. In many other regions,
Turck is the sales partner for the entire
product portfolio of Banner Engineering.
Bild Caption: Previous RET shareholders,
Brandon Topham and Garth Cubitt, will
also manage the new Turck Banner joint
venture in South Africa
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