YONKERS, N.Y. - Graphite Metallizing Corp. has hired Aalam Cheema as an inside sales engineer for Graphalloy products. Cheema is joining the Graphalloy sales engineering team with extensive experience in the pump industry. He began his career as a product development intern for Flowserve. More recently, he served as an applications engineer and then field engineer for Weir Minerals in Canada.

Cheema holds a master’s degree in industrial systems engineering from the University of Regina in Canada and a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Leicester in the United Kingdom.