Appointments

April 2011 News

Festo South Africa has appointed Horst Weinert as Didactic manager.

APC by Schneider Electric has appointed Jonathan Duncan as its director for the Central and North East Africa region.

Advanced Industrial Technology has appointed Dewald Louwrens as engineering manager at its Tsumeb, Namibia operation.

Advanced Industrial Technology has appointed Viola Klukowski as head of administration at its Tsumeb, Namibia operation.

Advanced Industrial Technology has appointed Nico Potgieter as site manager at its Tsumeb, Namibia operation.

Endress+Hauser has promoted Charlton Johannes to field service technician.

Omsa has appointed Clarence van Zyl as its technical proposal engineer.

Hennie Viviers has been appointed sales engineer Nelspruit at SEW-Eurodrive.

Rob Green has been appointed as sales manager Jhb at SEW-Eurodrive.

Philip van Rensburg has been appointed engineering manager at SEW-Eurodrive.

Jeffrey Mojela has been appointed as electronics trainee at SEW-Eurodrive.

Karina Burger has been appointed quality engineer Johannesburg at SEW-Eurodrive.

Nico Schutte has been appointed sales engineer Nelspruit by SEW-Eurodrive.

Glyn Scott has been appointed works manager Nelspruit at SEW-Eurodrive.

Jonathan McKey has been appointed sales manager Nelspruit at SEW-Eurodrive.

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