Materials handling company makes sales appointment

Wittmann UK has appointed Mark Hosty to the position of Sales Engineer for the Midlands and the North.

Wittmann UK has appointed Mark Hosty to the position of Sales Engineer for the Midlands and the North.

Barry Hill, Wittmann UK Managing Director says that "Growth in demand for Wittmann plastics materials handling solutions - dryers, conveyors, automated control and other elements - is spurring Wittmann UK growth and has triggered the need to grow our sales effort even further".

Mark Hosty has experience in both plastics processing and in sales of capital equipment.

He was most recently UK Sales Manager for with injection moulding machinery supplier Stork Plastics Machinery.

Hosty's qualifications include an HNC in Mechanical and Production Engineering.

He also enjoyed a lengthy spell as Senior Technician at Huhtamaki UK .

Hosty's niche technical expertise includes the moulding in the plastics packaging sector and in mould labelling (IML) projects.

Wittmann UK used leading recruitment and human resources company, Listgrove UK, to help fill the vacancy.

Listgrove's Mark Guest comments that "Listgrove's expertise within the plastics machinery sector made us an ideal partner to identify Mark as the most suitable candidate for this role - his skills were apparent from an early stage".

"It has been a pleasure in working with Barry and the Wittmann UK team".

Hill says that "We hope and expect that Mark will develop his Sales Engineer skills and commitment to the level of that practiced by Paul Dummer and others at Wittmann UK".

"We have sector-beating products and leading technologies in all areas of materials handling and automation and there is every reason to expect further growth in the Midlands and the North of the UK".

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