Marketing

Birmingham, AL – Motion Industries, Inc., a distributor of maintenance, repair, and operation replacement parts and a wholly owned subsidiary of Genuine Parts Company, announced the promotion of Pamela Sims to Vice President of Marketing, effective September 1, 2018.

In preparation for this year’s celebration of Manufacturing Day on Oct. 5, I read the book "Finding America’s Greatest Champion: Building Prosperity Through Manufacturing, Mentoring and the Awesome Responsibility of Parenting" by Terry M. Iverson, president of machine tool distributor and rebuilder Iverson & Co., Des Plaines, Illinois. The word “champion” in the title connects with the organization Iverson started called CHAMPION Now! CHAMPION is an acronym for Change How American (or Advanced) Manufacturing’s Perceived In Our Nation.

Pete Mrzlak, Regional Sales Manager at oelheld U.S., has been in sales and marketing for the  manufacturing industry for many years and brings a wealth of knowledge about metalworking lubricants and coolants.

Wildeck Inc., Waukesha, Wisconsin, promoted Kelly M. Kamlager to director of marketing.

Big Kaiser Precision Tooling Inc., Hoffman Estates, Ill., appointed Gillian Campbell marketing communications manager.

Eriez Manufacturing Co., Erie, Pa., announced that Hi Pro Equipment Inc., Kalamazoo, Mich., earned the 2017 Merwin Sales Award.

Machine tool distributor Kaast Machine Tools Inc., Ardmore, Pa., appointed Ebony Goldsmith office manager.