John Laing has joined Schenck Process as head of UK sales for the light industries, which includes the food, chemical, plastics, and pharmaceutical sectors. Laing has a successful track record in sales team management and joins the company at an exciting time in order to expand the sales activities into new markets.

Schenck Process UK has recently combined with Clyde Process and Redler, who are all members of the Schenck Process Group, to be able to offer a unique combination of equipment and technologies for weighing, feeding, conveying, and air filtration process. The key product areas for the company are the extensive range of loss-in-weight feeders and mass-flow weighing machines, which can be used in combination with the company’s pneumatic and mechanical conveying technologies.

Laing has more than 20 years experience in the food and chemical processing industry working with blue chip clients on major process improvement projects, including several years with weighing specialists, Avery. Laing’s wealth of market knowledge and sales expertise will be used to increase the market profile of Schenck Process in the UK together with his sales team, under the direction of Martin Thomson the new director of the IBS Light Division.

For more information, visit www.schenckprocess.co.uk.