LAWERENCE, Mass. – Asahi/America, Inc. has announced the addition of Brian Zagrodny to its outside sales team as national sales manager for fabricated products.
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LAWERENCE, Mass. – Asahi/America, Inc. has announced the addition of Edwina Merin Johns as valve and actuation product manager to its technical service team.
Johns will be responsible for maintaining all product documentation and technical sales tools for the company’s portfolio of valve and actuation products. She will be working closely with the company’s sales team to support customers’ industrial valve and actuation applications.
GROVETOWN, Ga. – Sid Higdon has been promoted to director of service GIW Industries, Inc., part of KSB SupremeServ. Higdon will oversee the growing service business and centers in Mulberry, Florida; Thomson, Georgia and Ft. McMurray, Canada.
DAVIDSON, N.C. – Ingersoll Rand Inc.has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Howden Roots LLC (“Roots”) from Chart Industries, Inc. for an all-cash purchase price of approximately $300 million.
GERMANTOWN, Wis. – WAGO Corporation has recently named Brandon Draper their new zone manager for the Western United States. This territory includes California and parts of Northern Nevada. Having received his Masters in Engineering from Cornell as well as a Masters in Business from Purdue University, Draper has held various management positions.
DALLAS, Texas – Rexel USA has announced that they have hired Jordan Lomheim as senior vice president and chief strategy officer.
Lomheim most recently served as a director of corporate strategy and M&A at Celanese Corporation. He also held roles at as an associate director at Kimberly-Clark and as a senior manager at JCPenney. He received a Bachelor of Arts in International Relations from the University of California, Berkeley in 2009.
ZURICH, Switzerland – ABB has inaugurated a process flowmeter calibration facility in its Minden factory in Germany.
GERMANTOWN, Wis. – Adam Keser has been hired by WAGO as its new zone manager for the Mountain Region. For the past 22 years, Keser has been with Cascade Controls, working his way up from the warehouse to VP of Sales and Marketing. Residing in Vancouver, Washington, his territory includes Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Utah, New Mexico, Arizona and portions of Nevada.
ONTARIO – Haver & Boecker Niagara has named Wajdi Jumeian as its certified sales manager for California. Jumeian brings 11 years of mineral processing experience to the California market.
BURLINGTON, Mass. and NEW YORK – CIRCOR International, Inc. (“CIRCOR” or the “Company”) has announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by investment funds managed by KKR, a leading global investment firm, in an all cash transaction valued at approximately $1.6 billion, including the assumption of debt.