Schwing America has added a marketing analyst to their staff at company headquarters in White Bear, Minnesota. Glenn Donoghue joined Schwing after a stint as an intern that led to a marketing communications position at LiuGong Machinery, a 50-year old Chinese manufacturer of construction equipment. He spent three years at the company’s headquarters in Guangxi, China, providing support for trade shows, public relations, sales training and website development.
Putzmeister America, Inc. has promoted Jorge Reza to Latin America after sales parts and service manager, responsible for coordinating all aspects of parts sales, service, warranty, and training for Putzmeister’s Latin American and Central American distributors and customers.
In 1999, Reza started his career at Putzmeister in the paint department, transferring to the customer support group five years later. This year, he will celebrate 15 years at the company.
Responding to increased demand for the company’s concrete equipment, Schwing America has hired a new vice president of operations, Arne King. “We are bringing increased efficiency to Schwing’s purchasing, quality control and manufacturing,” states Brian Hazelton, Schwing’s CEO, “with the end result being even higher standards of workmanship and customer satisfaction.” King’s background lends itself to the job, having held similar positions at Pentair, manufacturers of pumping systems and WEIR mining equipment.
GREENSBORO, NC – Mack Trucks is complementing its recently updated brand expression with an intuitive new www.MackTrucks.com website. Designed for easy use by customers and optimized for mobile devices like smartphones and tablets, the new site serves as a straightforward source of information about Mack’s products and services and helps customers connect with local Mack dealers.
Schwing has published a new brochure featuring the company’s line of separate placing booms for mounting on most any structure for high volume placement hundreds of feet from the pump. The 12-page brochure covers applications and advantages of the Schwing exclusive octagonal masts, including mounting choices and specifications. Schwing manufactures three separate placing boom sizes—28, 35 and 37-meters—as well as truck-mounted concrete pumps with detachable placing booms, the S 39 SX and S 41 SX.
Putzmeister America, Inc. has hired Kevin Brost as a traveling technical services representative responsible for responding to customer requests for equipment service worldwide. In the role, he also will be conducting new machine in-service and operator training.
With more than 13 years of experience in the concrete industry, Brost was most recently involved in sales, operator training, and field service while working for a Putzmeister Telebelt® dealer. He also has experience with operations and maintenance.
Longtime ACPA supporter and 43-year veteran of the concrete pumping industry, Ed Lothamer was given the Tom Anderson Lifetime Achievement Award by Schwing. The award ceremony took place at World of Concrete 2014 in Las Vegas. Lothamer is only the eighth recipient of the Tom Anderson award honoring outstanding contributions to Schwing America and the concrete pumping Industry. Lothamer was a principal in Concrete Placement, Inc.
Putzmeister America, Inc. has announced the establishment of Putzmeister Mexico, a division of Putzmeister America, which will include a manufacturing plant based in Monterrey, Mexico, located approximately 125 miles from the U.S. border.
“Creating a division of Putzmeister America in Mexico has been a goal of ours for a long time,” said Dave Adams, Putzmeister America’s president and CEO. “The central location of this division and manufacturing plant will allow us to better serve our customers in Mexico and throughout Latin America.”
Schwing America has hired a new regional manager for South America. Octavio Perdomo Berdugo will represent the company’s line of concrete pumps, truck mixers, recyclers and batch plants in South America except for Brazil, where Schwing has a manufacturing plant. He replaces Jorge Beals who served for five years in the position.
