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News Release from: Sandretto UK
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Team on 27 November 2006
Injection moulding machine builder
expands team
Injection moulding machinery supplier, Sandretto UK, has restructured its management team with immediate effect: Chris Whitlam is promoted to national sales manager for all products.
Leading injection moulding machinery supplier, Sandretto UK has restructured its management team with immediate effect: Chris Whitlam is promoted to national sales manager for all products - both injection moulding machines and ancillary production equipment Andy Roberts heads up the technical, engineering and aftersales services across the board and Mike Daly continues as Sandretto UK financial director
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 12 May 2003 at 8.00am (UK)
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Operations continue to be headquartered at Rugby and these new appointments follow on from Terry O'Reilly's relinquishment of the Sandretto UK managing director role in November of this year.
Whitlam said: "These moves represent organic growth for the company and are good news for Sandretto UK and for our customers in the marketplace in which we continue to see so much support and interest." Sandretto UK sales have increased well above budget for the past month of trading.
Items delivered include a 820 Mega T injection moulding machine which will shortly be commissioned with a large automotive moulder.
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Other sales this month include a three machine order with full automation systems.
Sandretto UK's leading edge in customer service and in after sales care will continue to be key to the company's success: Roberts's department will now enhance its role in developing the company's UK customer base; both guaranteeing speedy responses to the customer's immediate production needs, but also - through creative engineering and ancillary options - showing additional ways to make and save money.
Whitlam also noted that: "At Sandretto UK we continue to increase appeal based upon the 'one-stop-shop' principles of equipment supply".
"Consequently, for example, our market share of plastics ancillary equipment continues to grow; including sales of chillers, hopper loaders, masterbatch dosers and conveyors This month has seen us fulfil orders for over thirty conveyors from standard machine to bespoke installations." Sandretto Italy celebrated their 60th anniversary in October with an Open House marking a significant vote of confidence in the business and also showed the world the extent of current and forward production of Sandretto injection moulding machines.' The restructuring of Sandretto's Grugliasco factory now contains the injection moulding machine assembly lines for the whole Sandretto machine range, including the latest NOVE HP, NOVE HPF and MEGA TES.
Jeff Taylor's role as business development manager now embraces marketing and communications within the Sandretto group - a task that he will add to his role in general sales and project management.
A significant new energy-saving initiative - the Power Saver - designed by Taylor is finding many takers in the marketplace.
"We found so many customers talking to us about the excessive rises in electricity prices and energy," said Taylor, "That we decided to do something about it." After some months of development the Sandretto UK Power Saver unit is the result and is now on the UK market together with explanatory software and service.
The coming winter months are expected to boost Power Saver interest and sales.
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