Dairy, Food and Beverage Group adds to the team

Carlisle Process Systems, specialists in the design and manufacture of a range of equipment for the dairy, food and liquid processing industries, has announced the appointment of Phil Holden

CPS appoints Phil Holden.

Carlisle Process Systems Ltd (CPS), the Dorset-based specialists in the design and manufacture of a range of equipment for the dairy, food and liquid processing industries, has announced the appointment of a new executive.

Phil Holden, who has more than 20 years' experience in the dairy and brewing industries, will join CPS in September to work as business development manager in the company Dairy, Food and Beverage Group.

Aged 51, Phil is married and will work alongside Paul Griffin, the group's long-serving business development manager - he brings a vast store of engineering know-how to the company and its customers.

He was born in Lancashire where he still lives, and when not visiting customers or working at CPS headquarters in Sherborne, he will be based at the company's Huddersfield office.

Phil was educated in his home town and then at Oldham Technical College where he was awarded a College Associateship in Engineering as well as taking the chartered engineering CE Part II examinations.

He trained as a project engineer with Pasilac, the Danish dairy equipment company, based at their UK office in Preston and also managed major projects.

After the company was taken over by APV, he moved on to Tuchenhagen UK Ltd where he was to remain for 17 years until accepting a fresh challenge from CPS.

With Tuchenhagen he worked initially as a project engineer, then as a project manager and project engineering manager and latterly as process engineering manager, responsible for the design of all the company's process packages and quotations.

Phil is looking forward to his new role and promises to put his engineering skills and knowledge to good use out in the field.

''The big difference will be that customers will meet a process engineer in the first instance, instead of the usual initial point of contact being a salesman with engineering back-up coming along later.

At CPS they have a much more professional way of doing things - putting an experienced and highly qualified engineer in the front line, talking to the end user directly.

This way the right quality of information is put in front of clients immediately, which I think is great.'' When not at work Phil enjoys sport.

He still plays soccer every weekend in the Lancashire Amateur League and is secretary of a badminton club.

Charles Todd, CPS managing director, is delighted Phil has agreed to join the team.

''Phil will be working alongside Paul Griffin to help continue to develop potential growth areas.

He will bring to our business a lot of hands-on experience in technical sales, project management and process system engineering, all of which has to mean extra benefits for our clients''.

The UK business of Carlisle Process Systems was started in 1885 by the Gate family, under the trading name West Surrey Dairy.

Following reorganisation in 1925, trading subsidiaries were established, one of which was Wincanton Transport and Engineering Company Ltd.

In 1929, the parent company changed its name to Cow and Gate, which was followed by various moves.

In 1945 the business amalgamated with a local electrical firm and later changed its name to Wincanton Engineering Ltd.

Then in 1959, a merger by Cow and Gate with United Dairies resulted in the establishment of Unigate, which owned Wincanton Engineering until its sale in 1987 to Brunel Holdings PLC.

In 1998, the business moved to its present purpose built three acre complex at Coldharbour Business Park in Sherborne, Dorset.

A final piece of history was completed in 2001 with the acquisition of the company by Carlisle Process Systems Inc, a division of NYSE publicly quoted US trading giant Carlisle Companies.

The company is now a global provider of hygienic liquid process systems with three internal operations to reflect the markets it serves, these are: The Cheese Group, The Dairy, Food and Beverage Group and The Manufacturing Group.

To meet on-going demand for its equipment, production at Carlisle Process System's factory has recently established lean techniques which give it the capability of a quick turnaround in equipment manufacture by using proven designs, standardised modules and components all within compliance of its ISO9001 - 2000 quality system.

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