Masonry Magazine May 2009 Page. 47
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New Sales Manager, Trainer at PROSOCO
Mark Donze has joined PROSOCO as sales manager for the company's central Great Lakes sales region, replacing Mike Trotta, who was promoted to contractor training specialist. Donze's region includes Michigan, Ohio, western Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Kentucky and the southern tip of Indiana. As sales manager, he supports PROSOCO distributors in selling the company's products to clean, protect and maintain concrete, brick and stone architecture. He will also work with area contractors, architects, building owners and the company's many manufacturers' representatives throughout his sales territory. As the company's contractor training specialist, Trotta creates and travels with mobile "road show" training programs to give contractors nationwide free, hands-on training in PROSOCO's latest technologies. Previously, he served as a PROSOCO sales manager for five years.
Jet Edge Celebrates 25 Years in Business
Jet Edge Inc., manufacturer of industrial water jet cutting and surface preparation systems, is celebrating its 25th anniversary in the water jet industry in 2009. Jet Edge entered the water jet industry in 1984 as a manufacturer of 55,000 psi water jet intensifier pumps for precision water jet cutting and 36,000 psi water jet pumps and portable equipment for mobile water jet cutting, cleaning and surface preparation applications. Jet Edge began manufacturing precision water jet cutting tables in 1998. In 2007, the company became one of the first water jet manufacturers to offer a 90,000 psi water jet intensifier pump, which increases productivity by 40 percent to 50 percent for many materials and reduces operating costs by as much as 40 percent.
Muldoon Promoted to District Sales Rep, Spider
Spider, a division of SafeWorks, LLC, recently promoted its operations manager, Kevin Muldoon, to the position of district sales representative in its Cleveland, Ohio, location. In his new role, Muldoon is responsible for solving the suspended access and safety challenges of contractors and facility owners in Ohio, western Pennsylvania, New York and West Virginia and eastern Kentucky.
Muldoon began his Spider career as operations manager for the Cleveland branch in 2005. Drawing from a background in sales and project management, Muldoon has focused on customer satisfaction throughout his career.
Icon Expo Launched
The National Concrete Masonry Association (NCMA), the Expanded Shale Clay & Slate Institute (ESCSI), the Interlocking Concrete Pavement Institute (ICPI), the Cast Stone Institute (CSI), and the Portland Cement Association (PCA) announced that the International Con-
Access Rental Companies: Seize Opportunities
Access rental companies should face the current economic crisis with "open minds and open eyes" and dare to make strategic decisions, be it changing their sales structures or leveraging on size, said United Rentals CEO Michael Kneeland at the IPAF Summit in April in Dublin, Ireland. Kneeland was addressing more than 200 delegates who had come to learn more about "powered access solutions in difficult times."
Commenting on the role of IPAF in the powered access industry, Kneeland said, "That's what excites me about this federation - the collection of people, the collection of ideas."
United Rentals' application for IPAF membership was approved at the IPAF Council meeting earlier that day, bringing the federation's membership to 673. IPAF managing director Tim Whiteman announced that the IPAF Summit 2010 will be held in London, England, together with the International Awards for Powered Access (IAPAs). More information can be found at www.ipaf.org/iapa. IMAS
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