EuroWire January 2018

Corporate News

It’s a family thing

General Inspection (GI) has enjoyed more than a quarter-century relationship with Phillippe Linders, headquartered in Malaga, Spain, as the company’s European sales agent. He was selected by GI because of his broad knowledge of the fastener industry and for his multilingual skills. He speaks at least five languages fluently, which has enabled him to add substantially to GI’s sustained growth. His son, Joachim, has now joined the company and will help to further develop the European market. He has already hit the road running and produced impressive sales, gaining commercial experience in different European countries, and has taken over the fastener, automotive and aerospace representation. General Inspection LLC – USA Website : www.generalinspection.com Global director role for Jordi Coats, an industrial thread manufacturer, has appointed Jordi Pérez to the newly created role of global sales director, wire and cable products. The role will consolidate and coordinate Coats’s global commercial strategy and activity for this key industry. Mr Pérez will lead the wire and cable global team based in major markets across the world, including China, India, USA and across EMEA and South Asia. Customers will benefit from a uniform service offering from a single global team with fully integrated sales and commercial activities. Shantanu Banerjee, president, performance materials at Coats, said: “The wire and cable industry is an important focus for Coats and we are constantly looking at how we can most effectively deliver benefits to all our customers. This newly created role will bring together technology and commercial synergies that improve our service to customers and ensure our full value added engineered yarns offering is available in all our markets across the world.” Mr Pérez also retains his current role as general manager of Gotex.

▲ ▲ Phillippe and Joachim Linders

Coats – UK Website : www.coats.com

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