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News Release from: Sandvik Coromant UK
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Team on 13 January 2006
Sandvik Coromant appoints managing
director
Sandvik Coromant UK has appointed Dave Purchase as the organisation's new managing director - he takes over from Mike Walker who is now vice president, Coromant Region Europe.
Halesowen based Sandvik Coromant UK has announced the appointment of Dave Purchase as the organisation's new managing director Purchase (60) takes over from Mike Walker who has taken up a new post as vice president, Coromant Region Europe
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 11 Oct 2002 at 8.00am (UK)
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Purchase joins from Sandvik Canada where he was vice president and general manager.
He has extensive experience in Coromant's core industry sectors - automotive, aerospace and mechanical engineering - and is a member of the Swedish Institute of Management and a Mahler Management Graduate in the USA.
On his new role, Purchase comments: "Sandvik Coromant's role as a sales and marketing organisation in the UK is to deliver cost savings to our customer base in order to increase their productivity and competitiveness in the global market place.
The engineering sector constantly faces new challenges both technologically and from emerging, lower cost markets and I believe that Sandvik Coromant is uniquely positioned to meet these challenges and in doing so, help our customers deliver high quality products in a most cost effective manner." Married with two children, Purchase enjoys music and photography in his spare time.
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