£1m goal for new manufacturing recruit
A metrology expert has joined Burton-based Blum-Novotest as its new technical sales manager and has been tasked with doubling sales to £1m over the next twelve months.
Gary Bates, who started his career as one of the last indentured apprentices at Rolls-Royce, will be responsible for growing the East Midlands firm’s market share in aerospace, automotive and CNC machine tools.
“My previous roles have seen me work across the globe and in numerous different sectors, with the most recent position as a metrology consultant for some of the biggest names in the aerospace world,” said Bates.
“Blum-Novotest’s reputation was a major attraction for joining the company and I’m very excited about leading the sales team in pushing the DIGILOG range and LC50, not to mention traditional products including workpiece probes, roughness and bore gauges.”
He added: “There’s never been a better time to be driving these innovations with manufacturing now going away from Co-ordinate Measuring Machines towards what we can offer. Speed, accuracy and ease of installation are all major selling points.”
Blum-Novotest employs people and turns over £77m across its 16 subsidiaries.
