Sumitomo recruits heavy engineering specialist for sales and applications role

Starting as a mechanical craft machinist at British Steel in 1993, Mr Pearce then progressed through aerospace subcontract machining into selling subcontract capacity prior to moving into tooling sales five years ago.

He said: “75% of my machining experience has been in heavy general machining and engineering involving difficult materials and in particular in the energy and aerospace sectors. Here my specialist background, which has been largely application based, mainly involved milling and drilling.”

Sumitomo’s general manager Trevor Tolley added: “Andrew’s experience, based largely on being customer-driven for application involvement fits ideally into our established and proven product range.

“However, most importantly, the latest generation of tooling products coming from Japan are capable of significantly improving machine tool performance, utilisation, production reliability and consistency of operations and here Andrew’s manufacturing track record is a bonus in applying tooling and improving methods.”

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