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TopconPositioning
Group has appointed
Francois Erceau
as vice president of
the Geopositioning
Solutions Group in
Europe. Mr Erceau brings more than
20 years of executive-level industry
experience with both technical and
businessexpertise.
“Francois will be responsible
for pushing forward our existing
businesses and developing new
vertical markets in the region,
continuing the expansion strategy of
the GeoPositioning Solutions Group in
Europe,”saidEduardoFalcon,executive
vicepresident andgeneralmanager of
theGeoPositioningSolutionsGroup.
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Lavendon Group has appointed
Dietmar Mueller to the position of
managing director for its German
business, Gardemann.
This follows the resignation of
MatthewHickin in late2014.
Mr Mueller joins Gardemann from
Munters AB, a leading global supplier
of industrial and commercial air
treatments solutions. He joined
Munters in 1998 as managing director
for its German business before
carrying out a number of senior
roles across Europe, Asia-Pacific
and the US. Latterly, he was group
vice president for the Air Treatment
Division, based inHamburg.
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US Markets Inc, (USM) a wholesale
lifting equipment rental, sales and
reconditioning specialist, has added
a southeast region
account manager
to its team. Joe
Seckinger, based
in Port Saint Lucie,
Florida, is responsible
for new and existing
customer relationships in Florida,
South Carolina, North Carolina,
Alabama, Mississippi, andGeorgia.
Mr Seckinger has more than 17
years of experience in new and used
industrial and construction equipment
sales, with AWP expertise Genie and
JLG products. In his previous position
as general manager for road products
at Linder Industrial Machinery, he
helped drive the Wirtgen dealership
from fifth largest to number one in
NorthAmerica.
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KubotaUK, themanufacturerofmini
excavators, tractors and groundcare
solutions, has strengthened its sales
team with the
appointment of anew
keyaccountmanager.
Leana Horton
joins Kubota from
construction plant
hire
specialist
Hewden, where she looked after
national accounts including civil
engineering contractor Murphys.
She also built up and managed the
Crossrail project for Hewden, turning
it into a strategic account for the
business.
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SPP Pumps has announced further
investment into the Far East with the
appointment of a new Head for the
AsiaPacificdivisionof itsbusiness.
Steve Graham has expanded his
role within the company and will
combine heading up International
Business Development for the Water
and Desalination business with
responsibility for the Asia Pacific
region.
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Mr Graham commented: “I’ve been
with SPP now for just over 25 years,
having moved around within different
areasof thebusiness.
“It’s been an easy decision to stay
here for so long - SPP is a business
committed to providing quality
solutions and expertise to customers,
whenandwhere it reallymatters.”
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JCB apprentice Daniel Biggs has
won two top awards in a national
competition.
The young engineer and fourth
year apprentice, who works for JCB
Transmissions in the UK, beat stiff
competition to scoop the Outstanding
PerformancebyaFinalYearApprentice
Awardat theEEFFutureManufacturing
Awardsheld in London.
Daniel, from Wrexham in Wales, was
also named Manufacturing Student of
theYearat thesameawardsceremony.
HEServicesandManitouget
togetheratFrenchHQ
UK plant hire rental company HE Services has heavily invested in Manitou
telehandlers in recent years and to further the association it organised a visit
to theManitouheadquarters inAncenis, France.
There the staff saw for themselves the impressive production facilities, as
well as lettingoff steamat ago kart facilityand sampling some local wines.
HE Services used the visit to arrange a company management meeting,
hostedby its chairman, HughEdeleanu.
MR Edeleanu presented a telehandler sealed in a bottle to Manitou vice
presidentJeanRouault toacknowledge thesupplyofmore than500machines.
He thanked the Manitou UK team of Peter Smyth, Alisdair Evans and Steve
Walker forhosting the trip, aswellasAlineDouchez fromManitouheadquarters
for organising the factory tour andmachinerypresentations.
Representatives fromManitouUKconstructiondealerGlosroseofMaidstone,
Kent accompanied the visitors.
NewCEOhelpsDenmark's
Logitranscelebrate75years
It was all change at Danish material handling equipment manufacturer
Logitrans on 1 May as celebrations for the company’s 75th anniversary
coincidedwitha changeofmanagement at the top.
Gitte Kirkegaard Berg has taken over as chief executive officer, succeeding
her father Erling Pedersen who had held the role for the previous 40 years.
Production director Dorte Pedersen, who also runs Logitrans’ Chinese
operation, will helpher sister run the company.
It’s a third generation in charge at the company, whichwas founded during
the Second World War by Nis Pedersen and his wife Ingrid, and called Nisap
Maskinfabrik until 2002. In the early 1970s, Mr Pedersen started using his
interest in hydraulic solutions to develop andmanufacturematerial handling
equipment, such as pallet trucks, high lifters and stackers. The company now
exports to55 countries.
Tomark theanniversary, the companyput together anexhibitionof someof
its products from thepast 75 years.
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