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[Oct 2005]
Ken Wright Joins Dragon&TCKilns
Dragon&TCKilns, the European division responsible for exporting the Tung-Chung kiln range from China, has announced that Ken Wright has joined the Trentham-based company (Stoke-on-Trent, England) as a director. Ken is extremely well respected in the combustion field and is known across the world for his vast experience in kiln design, manufacturing and sales – a ceramic career he has been successfully pursuing for over 35 years.
Ken entered the ceramic industry at an exciting time as a trainee mechanical engineer and, after qualification, worked in the area of kiln design for a number of years.
In the following two decades he worked with the best known names in British kiln innovation and manufacture and by 1990 had already reached sales director level, ultimately becoming responsible for multi-million pound contracts in all the principal ceramic producing sectors.
His kiln sales activities have led him to travel to all the main ceramic and allied markets across all continents and Ken has also been in attendance at the industry’s major exhibitions for 20 years or more – all in the cause of promoting ceramic firing excellence.
The company said that this positive move further reinforced its strong UK-based hub of kiln engineering expertise, advanced combustion control systems, design know-how and partnership style approach with international customers. Ken is already working closely alongside founding director Adam Slater, fully qualified technical engineer Ming Ng and Chinese partner, Jeffrey Chen.
On joining forces with the company, Ken said: “Any initial concerns that customers may have had about Dragon&TCKilns being based on Chinese manufacture have proven unfounded as the modern and well equipped plant in Shenzhen is fully capable of manufacturing and supplying kilns at competitive prices and with a quality and performance equivalent to anything in the world.
“I’m particularly pleased to be joining Dragon&TCKilns; a young, dynamic and exciting partnership company dedicated to the advancement of the ceramic industry. This is an unmissable opportunity to work with an expanding organisation, especially at a time when its competitors are reducing in size, particularly those in Europe.
“I have already travelled many thousands of miles in just a few short weeks. We realise that business is still very competitive and it is vital to maintain face-to-face contact, good liaisons with our customers and to demonstrate diligence in everything we do.
“My enthusiasm for the job, the ceramic industry and the people who make it work is undimmed and I see this mirrored throughout the organisation.”
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