Hutchens Industries announces the promotion of Kandy Hume to its sales team as regional manager for Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, and western Missouri. She has worked at Hutchens for seven years in both the Seymour and Mansfield MO plants handling programming responsibilities for assembly line robotics, serving as team leader and trainer, and monitoring production quality and efficiency.
Kinedyne Corporation has appointed Randy K Poore the new account manager for its Northwest territory, and he will be based in Washington state. Poore's nearly 20-year career includes sales, management, and supervisory positions with Wabash National Trailer Centers, J B Hunt Transport, and Fruehauf Trailer Corporation.
Ridewell Suspensions has added Matthew Koontz to the engineering team as project manager. A graduate of the Missouri University of Science and Technology, he comes to the company with more than 10 years of design experience.
Eaton Corporation announced that Jim Sahli has been named to the new position of director-global field sales and marketing for the Vehicle Group and will report directly to John Coll, vice-president-global marketing. Most recently, Sahli served as director-field sales and marketing for Truck North America. Eaton also has named Mandar Dighe director-field sales and marketing for Truck North America, and he will report directly to Tim Sinden, president of that division. Dighe recently served as manager, market development and product planning for the Light Duty/Off Highway Transmissions business.
Groeneveld Group has appointed Phil Carrick national sales and key account manager for Canada. He has more than 30 years of truck and trailer market experience and has represented one of North America's largest trailer manufacturers as a dealer.
Torklift International has named Candice Boutilier director of marketing. She previously was assistant editor, city reporter, and photographer for the Columbia Basin Herald in Moses Lake WA. Torklift's former director of marketing Jessica May is preparing for deployment to Afghanistan, where she will serve in the US Marine Corp approximately 14 months before returning to Torklift as part of the marketing team.
Fras-le North America Inc has promoted Fabio Jurchaks to sales and engineering manager, while Matt Robere is the company's new application/NVH engineer. Jurchaks most recently was the company's project manager for OE light-duty business in North America. Robere previously was senior friction test engineer for Akebono.
Paramount Products has announced the appointments of Dan Schock to district sales manager and Warren Lett to customer service manager. They will report to Bob Voss, vice-president.