AddisonMckee Appoints Korean Service Engineer


World-leading tube manipulation technology providers, AddisonMckee, have appointed Mr. Sung Soo Kim as their service engineer for South Korea.

Currently receiving extensive product familiarization training at AddisonMckee's UK-based technology and manufacturing center, Mr. Kim has an impressive background across the fields of industrial and aeronautical engineering. He will take up his role supporting AddisonMckee's growing Korean customer base during May 2007 and will be assisted by AddisonMckee's regional machine and consumables manufacturing and supply facility in the People's Republic of China.

Commented AddisonMckee Director of Global Marketing, Christian Rogiers, "At AddisonMckee we are respected across Asia for the effort we place in understanding local culture and ways of doing business. In recruiting Mr. Kim, we have demonstrated to the Korean tube-forming marketplace that our commitment goes far beyond machine sales and includes full service and post-sales care at a local level."

About AddisonMckee

Globally renowned for the design, manufacture and supply of some of the world's finest tube bending and end forming technologies - for increasingly complex automotive, aviation, truck and shipbuilding requirements - AddisonMckee also offers highly innovative tube measuring solutions, tube perforation, piercing and louvring technologies, hydraulic press machinery, muffler assembly solutions, plant automation and complete workcell integration

In addition to these capabilities, a whole range of tooling and accessory options are also provided, as are comprehensive maintenance and service contracts, training and education programs and financial services. Where applicable, AddisonMckee is also able to offer customers the opportunity of machine rebuilds, refurbishment, upgrades and trade-ins.

From its state-of-the-art manufacturing centers in the USA, United Kingdom, Canada and China, AddisonMckee is committed to providing rapid solutions to market and also regularly assists clients in product prototyping, parts development, small production runs and pre-production sample development.

AddisonMckee is principally owned by WHI Capital Partners (WHICP), a Chicago-based private equity group that invests in middle market, industry-leading companies with solid financial fundamentals and proven management teams. WHICP is an affiliate of William Harris Investors, Inc., a family-based asset management firm founded by Irving B. Harris in 1987.

For further information please contact:

Rachel Thomas - BHL Marketing
E-mail: rachel@bhlmarketing.com
Tel: +44 (0) 1244 851850
Fax: +44 (0) 1244 851888

Christian Rogiers - AddisonMckee
E-mail: crogiers@addisonmckee.com
Tel: +1 513 228 7076
Fax: +1 513 228 7226

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