- 23 January 2008 -

New MD for Rotork

Alex Busby has been appointed managing director (MD) of Rotork Fluid Systems, a designer and manufacturer of pneumatic, hydraulic and associated heavy duty pipeline and process valve actuators within the Rotork Group.

Busby has over twenty years of international sales, engineering and business management experience of the fluid power actuator industry. Rotork says that as MD he will guide the division’s continued global expansion with the products and approvals in existing and new key markets. Rotork’s fluid power actuator activity is reportedly experiencing growth and now accounts for a significant proportion of the Group’s total business.

Busby replaces Peter France who will become MD of Rotork Controls and Rotork Group COO, who will become Group CEO in May 2008.

www.rotork.com

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