TPT March 2020

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Metalube announces new commercial manager GLOBAL lubricant manufacturer

chain oils division as well as running Bishopdale’s own label company, United Oil Products (UOP).

Metalube, part of the Bishopdale Group, has promoted Matthew Buffin to commercial manager. Mr Buffin is now managing a team of global product managers responsible for overseeing the company’s sales worldwide. Mr Buffin has been with Metalube for two years as a global product manager developing international business for the company’s high-performance

Mr Buffin was formerly with ITW ROCOL for 16 years, leaving as global key account manager and his expertise has proven valuable to Metalube.

Commercial director Douglas Hunt said: “Matt is incredibly capable and knowledgeable, and I am thrilled to promote him as my number two in the commercial team. We have big plans for the business and Matt is the ideal man to help us achieve them.”

Metalube www.metalube.co.uk Xiris appoints Australian representative

They share our values of a high level of commitment to ensuring customer satisfaction and continuous improvement of technical knowledge.” Weld Australia represents the welding profession in Australia and among its various activities, it recommends and provide equipment to itsmembers to help them develop their welding capabilities. Xiris Automation Inc specialises in developing optical equipment for process and quality control.

WELD Australia has announced that Xiris Automation has appointed it as its exclusive distributor of Xiris Weld Camera products for Australia. The Xiris XVC weld cameras are used to monitor live welding processes to detect process and quality issues in welding and Weld Australia will also provide turnkey sales and after sales service and training. In entering into this relationship with Weld Australia, David Garrard, sales director of APAC for Xiris Automation explained: “We are excited to work with an excellent partner who has many years of experience in the welding industry at all levels in Australia, combining training and certification experience with extensive welding equipment knowledge. A TRADE fair for industrial heat exchangers and heat transfer technology will be held for the first time as part of Tube Düsseldorf at the Düsseldorf Exhibition Centre from 30 March to 1 April 2020. WTT-Expo will focus on industrial heat recovery, industrial heat exchangers, and heat transfer technology systems as energy-efficient systems for heat transfer are in demand and energy is increasingly becoming a key cost factor for companies. Manufacturingcompaniesareinvesting more in energy efficiency and according to the current “Energieeffizienz-Index

Xiris www.xiris.com

Weld Australia www.weldaustralia.com.au WTT-Expo to debut as par t of Tube 2020 Weld Australia distribution deal

heat transfer technologies. The com- prehensive line-up of the trade fair ranges from planning and construction to the complex area of maintenance. Admission to WTT will be free for visitors to the concurrently held Trade fairs wire and Tube and visitors will find the independent trade fair in Hall 7.1 as part of Tube 2020. Trade visitors only wishing to attend WTT can also access wire in Halls 9 to 17 and Tube in Halls 1, 3 to 7 on their admission tickets.

(EEI)”, almost three quarters of all companies spend more than ten per cent of their total investment on this. At WTT-Expo exhibitors from the sectors of industrial heating and cooling technology will demonstrate how companies can produce at optimised costs while making a sustainable contribution to minimising emissions at the same time. Organisers expect exhibitors who are attending the three-day WTT-Expo from Germany and the neighbouring countries, to display equipment, apparatus, products and services from industrial heat exchanger and

WTT-Expo 2020 www.tube-tradefair.com

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