KANSAS CITY, Mo. - The American Public Works Association (APWA) announced that Stan Brown, P.E., PWLF, Member Services Consultant, Georgia Municipal Association, Atlanta, Ga., has been sworn in as President of APWA effective September 1, 2021. Affirmed by APWA’s more than 30,000 members, President Brown will lead the organization for the 2021-2022 term. President Brown succeeds APWA President Mary Joyce Ivers, CPFP, PWLF.
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WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. – ITT Inc. named Bartek Makowiecki senior vice president of strategy and business development, reporting to Luca Savi, President and CEO, ITT Inc. In this role, Makowiecki will drive all strategy and merger and acquisition (M&A) activities across ITT.
CINCINNATI, Ohio – Rodem recently acquired Columbus, Ohio-based Masterleo, a 40-year-old company that provides instrumentation services and sales to food and beverage processors, with a primary focus on dairies, throughout the U.S., Canada and Mexico.
Rodem believes this acquisition will bring extensive benefits to its customer base by increasing access to additional technical resources, expanded instrumentation product lines, and solution- centric industry professionals.
GOTHENBURG, Sweden - SKF has completed the acquisition of Rubico Consulting AB, an industrial consultancy firm with 10 employees based in Luleå, Sweden.
Rubico Consulting AB specializes in visualization and analysis of signal data. This expertise will be integrated into SKF’s offer around the rotating shaft, as well as powering new technology areas such as bearings with fiber-optic sensors.
CLEVELAND, Ohio – Edgewater Capital Partners, a private equity firm focused on investing in performance materials businesses, announced the acquisition of the polymer components business from EnPro Industries, Inc. (NYSE: NPO), an industrial technology company based in Charlotte, North Carolina. Financial terms were not disclosed.
BONITA SPRINGS, Fla. -- Herc Holdings Inc. (NYSE: HRI), a North American equipment rental supplier operating as Herc Rentals Inc., announced that it has completed the acquisition of substantially all the assets of Texas-based CBS Rentals (CBS).
SHANGHAI, China - CIRCOR announced that Brian Chen has joined CIRCOR Industrial group as general manger, APAC. As GM APAC, Brian will take responsibility for the Weihai P&L as well as for the industrial group’s overall commercial activities in Asia Pacific (China & RoA). Moreover, Chen will ensure the further development and execution of growth agenda in Asia Pacific, in particular our East for East strategy. Brian will be based in Shanghai, China.
HERZOGENAURACH, Germany - The Supervisory Board of Schaeffler AG has appointed Claus Bauer (55) to the board of managing directors of Schaeffler AG as chief financial officer (CFO), responsible for finance and information technology, effective September 1, 2021, under a two-year contract. Bauer succeeds Dr. Klaus Patzak (56) who left Schaeffler AG at his own request effective July 31, 2021.