Product category:
Valve positioners and actuators
News Release from: Rotork Fluid Systems
Edited by the Processingtalk Editorial
Team on 16 January 2008
New Managing Director for Rotork Fluid
Systems
Alex Busby has been appointed Managing Director of Rotork Fluid Systems, the specialist designer and manufacturer of pneumatic, hydraulic and associated heavy duty pipeline and process valve actuators
Born and educated in the Rotork home city of Bath, Alex (48) has over twenty years international sales, engineering and business management experience of the fluid power actuator industry Having worked for Rotork in the 1980s he re-joined the company in 2003, becoming Business Development Director for Rotork Fluid Systems in 2005
This article was originally published on Processingtalk on 18 Apr 2005 at 8.00am (UK)
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As Managing Director he will guide their continued global expansion with the right products and approvals in existing and new key markets.
With three manufacturing plants supported by a growing network of strategically sited Centres of Excellence, the Rotork fluid power actuator activity is experiencing impressive growth and now accounts for a significant proportion of the Group total business.
Commenting on his appointment, Alex said: "I am looking forward to the exciting and challenging task of fulfilling the high expectations of the Division, a task in which I am fortunate to be working with the most experienced team in the business".
As Managing Director of Rotork Fluid Systems, Alex replaces Peter France who has been promoted to Managing Director of Rotork Controls and Rotork Group Chief Operating Officer, and will become Group Chief Executive Officer in May 2008.
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