Platinum Tooling announces promotions and applications engineering appointment

Platinum Tooling Technologies has appointed Luke Hansen vice president, named Frank Twomey director of sales for North America and added Ethan Kim as applications engineer.

Hansen joined the company in October 2017 as a technical sales specialist. He has worked with founder and president Preben Hansen, international suppliers and the company’s North American sales network.

Twomey’s expanded role covers sales operations in the United States, Canada and Mexico. He will provide direction to regional sales teams and independent manufacturers’ representatives, building on his work in the Eastern United States during the past three years.

Kim will review customer applications and recommend tooling. Before joining Platinum Tooling, he worked as a product applications engineer at Smalley in Lake Zurich, Illinois, supporting customers and collaborating with sales, engineering, quality, estimating and manufacturing teams.

Platinum Tooling imports machine tool accessories and is developing its own private-label, application-specific tooling.

Source: Platinum Tooling Technologies.