New European Sales Manager for Teknek

Douglas has been an area sales manager at Teknek for the past four years and has over 18 year’s industrial experience. Previously he was sales director with Plastic Mouldings.

In his new role Douglas will be leading a high performance sales team selling Teknek’s market leading contact cleaning equipment to key industry sectors throughout Europe. He succeeds David Westwood who takes up the position of general manager, Teknek USA at the company’s new sales and fulfilment facility in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Stephen Mitchell, managing director, Teknek commented: “We are delighted that Douglas has accepted the position of European sales manager. Not only has he a wealth of business and sales experience but he has accumulated substantial technical knowledge of yield improvement technology which will benefit our client base in Europe.”

Teknek equipment is employed world-wide in a variety of industries from semi-conductors to printing to improve yields and reduce wastage by removing contamination in critical production processes. The company pioneered the development of contact cleaning equipment over 20 years ago and is now the global market leader in this field with over 16,000 “clean machines” installed in the field. It is estimated that the company’s technology has saved customers in excess of $2bn.