WALL PUT UP AS
NEW AIRDRI CEO The Airdri Group has confirmed that Tony Wall has been appointed as Chief Executive Officer, as of 1 May 2018.
Reporting into Airdri President Bruce Philipps and the Airdri Board, Tony will oversee the day to day operations of the group in Oxford, Chicago, Shanghai and Guangzhou, and will have a strong focus on sales growth across key products and markets.
Tony is currently the CEO at Ipro Solutions Ltd, and previously he held appointments across various sectors including five years as Managing
DIVERSEY PARTNERS UP FOR ROBOTICS
RESEARCH Diversey is partnering with Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) and a select group of other companies on pioneering research in the field of robotics.
The vision of the research project is to provide mobile industrial robots with an open world view that helps them learn to understand what they see, so they can adapt to changes in their working environment. It also aims to give mobile robots increased flexibility to enable them to operate in environments that undergo frequent changes.
Diversey, the TU/e High Tech Systems Center, plus Lely Industries,
Director of the Air Division at Qinetiq PLC. He started his working life as a Royal Air Force Engineer Officer.
Commenting on the appointment, Bruce said: “We are delighted that Tony will be joining us and look forward to the benefit of his extensive experience in engineering, sales, research and development and people management.
“Over the past four years we have established a strong operating platform, bringing hand dryer manufacturing in-house, establishing two elevator manufacturing ventures in China, investing in a new state of the art facility in Guangzhou to
Vanderlande Industries, ExRobotics (ImProvia), and Rademaker are co- investing €1.5m in the project, which began in January 2018 and will run for four years. The project is named FAST (new Frontiers in Autonomous Systems Technology) and partners from other fields are welcome to join. The industrial partners cover a wide range of applications from agriculture, internal logistics, inspection robots, high-tech bakery equipment and professional cleaning.
The FAST project is the result of an industry survey conducted by the TU/e High Tech Systems Center to establish shared robotics R&D questions in which the expertise of TU/e could play a role. The collaboration enables experiences to be quickly shared and use cases to be added early on in the development
service our customer needs better and bringing in the right level of talent to ensure everything we do is high quality. The next stage in our development is to drive company growth and we are confident Tony is the right person to lead that charge.”
Tony said: “I am very much looking forward to joining Airdri and working with the team on expanding our market share whilst continuing to provide a world class service to our customers. Innovation and quality are at the heart of all we do and will continue to be a major focus over the years to come.”
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process. This also has a positive impact on the education of students and is an investment in developing future engineers.
Dr. Ilham Kadri, President and CEO of Diversey said: “Diversey has long championed the use of cleaning robots working in tandem with human operatives in locations such as airports, offices, schools, malls, hospitals and warehouses. Our TASKI Intellibot range of robotic floor cleaning machines have won multiple innovation awards from around the world and this is an exciting collaboration that will demonstrate that robots are here to stay... in collaboration with human beings.”
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