Machinery Update July / August 2020

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Who What Where
Who’s done what and gone where...
Electrocomponents
MDS
Optima
CKF Systems
Mike England
has been
promoted to
chief operating
officer at
Electrocomponents reporting
directly to ceo Lindsley Ruth.
In his new role, he will help to
drive the Group’s long-term
strategy, aligning the go-tomarket,
digital and customer
and supplier centric activities
across the globe. He will
continue to lead the EMEA
region until a new EMEA
president has been appointed.
Kern
David Cox has
joined Kern
to take up the
newly created
post of UK head
of sales. This role has been
created to strengthen the
company’s position in the UK
market and to capitalise on
recent product additions.
At Kern he will be responsible
for driving sales of mailing,
smart locker and packaging
solutions across the UK.
Heuft
Joanne Ball
has re-joined
Heuft some ten
years after her
first tenure,
this time as customer centre
co-ordinator to manage the
new training and test facility.
Accraply
Justin Stovall
has been
appointed vice
president of
sales at Barry-
Wehmiller company Accraply
to oversee all global sales
and business development
activities. He joined the group
company Synerlink in 2015
then had a stint at BW Flexible
Systems before joining Accraply.
Luke Hill has
joined MDS
as its newest
field-based
service engineer
to boost the growing sales
and service divisions at
the company. Based in
Birmingham, he brings
over ten years of experience
of biometric engineering
solutions to the team and is
now also Ceia trained and
certified. “I’ve always been
impressed by the quality and
design of Ceia’s detectors and
so I decided I had to go for it
when the chance came up,”
he tells Machinery Update.
tna solutions
Raj Singh
has joined
tna solutions
as group
aftermarket
& services manager to bolster
the aftermarket experience
for the company’s global
customer base. He will focus
on further boosting standards
in customer care from troubleshooting
technical issues to
providing solution upgrades.
RA Rodriguez
Carl Richmond
is the new sales
engineer for the
North of England
at RA Rodriguez
to help meet the growing
demand for its range of products
and brings technical sales
and business development
experience to the role.
Loma Systems
Ivor Milne has
joined Loma
Systems as a
new regional
sales manager
for Scotland. Previously, he
was a sales engineer
at Markem-Imaje UK.
Jan Glass has
succeeded
Dr Juergen
Kuske as chief
financial officer
of the Optima Group while at
the same time, taking over the
management of the central
departments at the company.
This industrial engineer
joined Optima in 2016 and has
held a variety of management
positions since to give him
insight into the company.
WMH
Tom
Tomlinson, son
of owner and
founder of WMH
John Tomlinson,
is the new managing director
of the company from July.
He has been working at the
firm for eight years and is
keen to ensure it continues
to develop its capabilities
in meeting the demands for
automation in the food and
pharmaceutical industries.
His engineering and logistics
background will help him
retain the firm’s core values.
John will remain on hand to
support the business.
Interroll
Urs Tanner
will step down
as chairman
of the board
of directors at
Interroll at the end of his term
of office next year but he will
remain on the board for one
more year as planned.
Paul Zumbühl,
has been the
Group’s ceo
since 2000 and
has delivered
the successful expansion
plans during his 20 year
tenure. In 2021, he will step
down as ceo and take over
as the new chairman of the
board of directors.
Nick Hornsey is
a new software
engineer in the
engineering
team at CKF
Systems to meet the growing
demand for the company’s
automation solutions.
He has an engineering degree
in robotics and joins CKF
from a cobot specialist.
Jennifer
Halliday has
joined the
company as
marketing
manager tasked with bringing
a new focus to its marketing
efforts and also to raise the
profile of the CKF brand.
Flexicon
Peter
Kalinovski has
been named
regional sales
manager of the
new Flexicon (Europe) office
in Germany which has been
opened to provide factorydirect
engineering services
and technical sales support
to customers throughout
Germany. He brings five
years of packaging industry
experience to the role.
Nielsen McAllister
Nielsen
McAllister,
PR agency for
the packaging
and print
sectors boasting many PPMA
members as clients,
is currently celebrating its
30th anniversary. Based
in Derby, the agency was
founded by current managing
director Bob Bushby in 1990,
at a time when Margaret
Thatcher was still Prime
Minister and a Mars Bar cost
just 27p. The seven-strong
team has enjoyed a virtual
birthday party online during
lockdown to celebrate.