Hwacheon Machinery America, Lincolnshire, Ill., recently appointed two new sales directors: Bob Pellegrini for the Eastern half of the United States, and Dan Pierce for the Western half, according to a Jan. 26 company news release. The two, who were promoted from regional sales manager positions held at the company since 2012, will be in charge of sales and dealer support.
With a growing dealer base, Hwacheon made the assignments to help ensure dealer success in bringing Hwacheon machining center and turning center solutions to their markets, the company reported. Well-known in the industry, Pierce—the company's senior sales director—and Pellegrini bring decades of successful machine tool field sales and management experience to their new assignments.
"One of our main goals is to support Hwacheon's professional machine tool sales team and our growing dealer network, enabling them to deliver efficient solutions to shops in the general machining, mold and die, energy, medical and aerospace markets," said Robert Nedler, Hwacheon's managing director.
Related Glossary Terms
- machining center
machining center
CNC machine tool capable of drilling, reaming, tapping, milling and boring. Normally comes with an automatic toolchanger. See automatic toolchanger.
- turning
turning
Workpiece is held in a chuck, mounted on a face plate or secured between centers and rotated while a cutting tool, normally a single-point tool, is fed into it along its periphery or across its end or face. Takes the form of straight turning (cutting along the periphery of the workpiece); taper turning (creating a taper); step turning (turning different-size diameters on the same work); chamfering (beveling an edge or shoulder); facing (cutting on an end); turning threads (usually external but can be internal); roughing (high-volume metal removal); and finishing (final light cuts). Performed on lathes, turning centers, chucking machines, automatic screw machines and similar machines.
