APPOINTMENTS
James Hines re-joined the Sumitomo (SHI) Demag UK & Ireland team
The new Business Development Manager brings with him over three decades of processing and technical knowledge that he will use to put customers first and prove the company’s lifetime commitment to injection moulding precision. By welcoming James Hines back into the team, Sumitomo (SHI) Demag
is showing it means business when it comes to helping customers. James brings several decades of real-world experience, including how to ensure manufacturers are making full use of all their technology and it is delivering what they need day in and day out. As the new Business Development Manager, James is focused on sourcing solid facts and figures to help customers make the best processing decisions for their business. He will be available to give expert advice, guide improvements, run training sessions and oversea sales. Additionally, he is on hand to support customers with mould trials, ensuring they are rigorous and align to each customer’s needs. The cornerstone of this business development strategy is trust. James mentioned, “In a world where many deals happen online, Sumitomo (SHI) Demag stands out by spending time with customers, talking face to face and building genuine relationships. Buying a machine isn’t a one-off transaction, it’s the start of a partnership that lasts,” His immediate focus will be to reconnect with clients who have been part of the company’s story in the UK and Ireland for decades. This relationship-driven approach is backed by an unparalleled depth of experience. Having worked on nearly every generation and model of Sumitomo (SHI) Demag machinery throughout his career, James possesses a unique historical perspective on how processing equipment has evolved.
He calls today’s all-electric injection moulding machines “truly impressive”. “The IntElect, S and PAC-E series are reliable and easy to use, both qualities that customers value highly.”
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WAGO appoints Deepan Patel to lead its data centre growth across the UK and Ireland
WAGO, specialist in electrical interconnection and automation technology, has announced the appointment of Deepan Patel as its Automation Sales and Data Centre Industry Manager for the UK and Ireland. In his new role, Patel will lead WAGO’s commercial and industry engagement across the data centre market. His immediate priorities are to build recognition for WAGO’s automation portfolio among consultants, specifiers and operators, to shape the product roadmap for the next decade of data centre growth, and to develop the positioning needed to take that portfolio to market. That portfolio sits across low voltage controls, monitoring and connectivity, where WAGO’s modular approach to power and data connections is designed to speed up installation and reconfiguration as facilities scale. Support for open protocols also gives operators a route to bring building systems, electrical infrastructure and IT monitoring into a single view, an increasingly pressing requirement as densities rise and cooling architectures change.
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both the electrical infrastructure and the IT systems sitting on top of it,” said Darren Hodson, Managing Director, WAGO UK and Ireland. “Deepan has spent his career working across that divide and has already helped build a data centre business from a standing start once before. Bringing him into the team is a clear statement of our ambition in this market.” “WAGO has a portfolio the data centre sector
genuinely needs, particularly around modular connectivity, monitoring and open automation protocols, and my job is to make sure the market knows it,” said Patel. “The IT and OT gap remains one of the biggest
“The data centre market is moving faster than almost any other sector we operate in, and the operators and consultants building these facilities need automation partners who understand
unsolved problems in this industry. As densities rise and cooling architectures change, the operators who can see and control everything in their facility through a single open system will have a real advantage. That is the conversation I want to be having with consultants, specifiers and operators over the next twelve months.”
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