Malvern Instruments is pleased to welcome Masaaki Nakata to the Malvern Japan team, in his role as regional sales manager Japan for Malvern’s process systems.

While Nakata’s major focus will be the continued development of Malvern’s process business in Japan, he will also provide support for process sales throughout the Asia Pacific region.

Nakata joins Malvern Japan from the Alcan International Network, where for 13 years he was the sales manager responsible for a variety of raw materials, selling into manufacturing industries such as glass, fine ceramics, grinding wheel, refractory construction and automotives. Fluent in three languages, he brings an extensive business expertise as well as knowledge of both powder processing technologies and powder characterization.

For details of Malvern’s process systems for particle characterization visit http://www.malvern.com/process