Appointments

First Quarter 2007 News & events

Nina Oppel has joined SEW Eurodrive as a projects co-ordinator.

Jacques Swart has been appointed as sales engineer in Richards Bay for SEW Eurodrive.

Imtiaz Fajandar has been appointed as projects and applications engineer at SEW Eurodrive.

Mark Wilke has joined SEW Eurodrive’s internal sales team in its Johannesburg office.

Tanya Dannhauser has been appointed as PA at SEW Eurodrive.

Adriaan Lombaard has been appointed to the position of product manager at Bartec.

Andrew Little has been appointed as the new service manager for Hytec, based in Johannesburg. Andrew originally joined Hytec in 1995 as an installation assistant. Reporting to the engineering director, Ulf Hasstenteufel, Andrew will be responsible for building the resources of the service department to meet the needs of Afripower customers and to have the ability to respond quickly and effectively to breakdown situations.

Tony West has been appointed branch manager, Hytec Sishen, effective 1 March 2007. Tony joined Hytec Witbank in July 1999 in the capacity of internal salesman and was promoted to the position of technical sales representative in 2002 and senior technical sales representative in June 2006.

Bartec has appointed Rob Edgar as account manager.

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