Ian
Huggins takes over at Parker Instrumentation
Posted: 20 February 2004
Ian Huggins has been appointed General Manager of Parker Hannifin's
Instrumentation Products Division, the European leader in instrumentation
tube fittings, valves and manifolds.
After 14 years with Parker in logistics and financial management
roles, Ian now takes over responsibility for a division serving
international oil, gas, petrochemical, processing and utility markets.
Ian's appointment follows the promotion of David Bailey to General
Manager of Parker Hannifin's Filter Division Europe in Dewsbury
(UK), after six years in charge at Barnstaple.
"Ian has been part of the senior management team at Barnstaple
for many years and brings a vast amount of experience and know-how
to his new role", says David Bailey. "Parker Instrumentation
is in a period of strong growth as a result of the initiatives this
management team has put in place, and I am confident that this trend
will continue under his leadership."
The division operates from its ISO9001-registered design and manufacturing
centre in Barnstaple, UK, and through some 300 Parker sales centres
and distributor locations worldwide. The Barnstaple plant is a benchmark
facility in Europe for the company's parent , the $6billion-sales
Parker Hannifin corporation, and has been the subject of substantial
investment in recent years. In particular, the company has recently
released a much-extended range of manifolds, and is currently enjoying
strong sales growth - largely through its ability to offer customers
comprehensive instrumentation packages.
"Our investments are delivering new opportunities for us,
particularly in the realm of large-scale engineering projects such
as oil platforms, pipelines, and new processing plants, and we are
now the sole or leading instrumentation component supplier for a
large proportion of our customer base", notes Ian Huggins.
"This influential position is helping us to drive instrumentation
design - and I want us to exploit that position to the full, with
innovations in key component areas such as manifolds and process
analytics."
Parker Instrumentation provides tube fittings, valves, manifolds
and enclosures for process and plant instrumentation in sectors
including oil and gas, petrochemical, chemical, alternate fuels,
pulp and paper, and analytical/high purity. We offer our own-design
products, as well as those from sister divisions IVD (valves), ICD
(fluid connectors), UHP (semiconductor products) and Veriflo (regulators,
valves, transducers). Parker Instrumentation has its European HQ
in Barnstaple (UK), and serves customers throughout Europe, the
Middle East and the CIS; .
The organization is a division of Parker Hannifin, worldwide leader
in motion, control and critical flow components and systems for
instrumentation, industrial and aerospace markets.
For more information see http://www.parker.com
Posted by Richard Price,
Editor Pipeline Magazine
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