Appointments

Fourth Quarter 2007 News & events

Bearing Man's Power Transmission Division has announced the following appointments:

* Scott Larson to chain divisional manager.

* Lee Quigley to divisional manager of drive belts and ironware.

* Jan Booysen to technical manager.

* Steve Hodgkinson to office manager.

APC-MGE has appointed Neill Schreiber as sales manager: Southern Africa.

Ken Quick has been appointed chief executive officer of the Becker Group of Companies.

Beckhoff Automation has announced the appointment of Warren De Wit to the position of support and training engineer.

SEW Eurodrive has announced the appointment of Wayne Martin to the position of sales engineer at its Johannesburg office.

Festo has announced the promotion of Andrew Ferenczy to the position of branch manager – Johannesburg.

Festo has promoted Brett Wallace to the position of national sales manager. He takes over from Heimo Spreng who retired at the end of August.

Shorrock Automation has announced the following promotions:

* Chris Cronjé to sales manager at the company’s Centurion head office.

* Alfie Wilkinson to Rustenburg branch manager.

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