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[May 2007]
Minerals Technologies Appoints Vice President, Global Supply Chain & Logistics
Minerals Technologies Inc (New York, USA) has announced that Bill Wilkins will join the company on 4 June 2007 as Vice President, Global Supply Chain & Logistics.
"We are very pleased that a man of Bill's talents and business experience is joining Minerals Technologies," said Joseph Muscari, Chairman and CEO. "Bill has more than 20 years of operational and financial management in Fortune 500 manufacturing companies and Tier 1 suppliers serving a wide variety of industries. His appointment to head our strategic supply chain and logistics function is a continuation of our effort to establish a solid foundation upon which to move the company in the direction of higher performance through the implementation of sustainable improvement processes."
Mr Wilkins has a broad range of experience in a variety of different industries. He has worked extensively in Europe, the Middle East, Far East and the United States.
In 2006, he founded Management Services, a consultancy specialising in advising corporate and private equity clients on strategy, performance improvement, due diligence and acquisition target selection in the aerospace, defence and industrial sectors. Before starting his consultancy, he was President and CEO of Sermatech International Inc, an engineered coatings applicator and specialty process business serving the aerospace and industrial gas turbine industries in North America, Europe and Asia. Sermatech had been part of Teleflex Inc which designs, manufactures and distributes specialty engineered products to a wide range of industries. Bill Wilkins previously served as Vice President and CFO of the Teleflex Aerospace Group before leading the spin-off of Sermatech.
Between 1994 and 2002, Mr Wilkins was with the Howmet Castings Business Unit of Alcoa, where he served as Head of Finance and Administration for the Aluminum Casting Group, and before that Group Controller, International Operations.
Minerals Technologies Inc is a global resource and technology based growth company that develops, produces and markets world-wide a broad range of specialty mineral, mineral-based and synthetic mineral products and related systems and services.
www.mineralstech.com
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