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MAN DIESEL: MAN Diesel Group
has appointed
Wayne Jones,
presently manag-
ing director of
MAN Diesel Ltd.,
U.K., as the new
head of the busi-
ness unit After
Sales for all MAN
Diesel activities
globally. In this new role he will be in
charge of the worldwide MAN Diesel
PrimeServ business and will continue
to be responsible for MAN Diesel Ltd.
W. Jones
Detail of the new naming system developed for Ansaldo’s own line of products.
GE: GE has announced the appoint-
ments of Tina Donikowski as vice
president of propulsion systems and
services at GE Transportation and
Ricardo Silva as chief financial offi-
cer and vice president of GE Power &
Water. Also, the company has named
John Flannery president and chief
executive officer of GE’s business op-
erations in India.
Ansaldo Energia’s New
Naming System
Model designations will help create an independant and recognizable brand.
In 2004 Ansaldo Energia made the
strategic decision to not renew its
licensing agreement with Siemens and
started developing its own products
based on its own internal research and
development.
Since then, the company has experienced a sharp increase in R&D investments from US$7.45 million to approximately US$74.5 million in the
period from 2004 to 2008.
In 2008, the company established a
center of excellence in Genoa, Italy, and
assigned to it the responsibility for the
entire product development process,
from planning to implementation of
projects, right through to the industrial
production and commercial release.
This evolution is testified by the
growing number of new products and
developments, covering the full range
of power stations: emission-reducing
devices, new diagnostic tools, exten-
sion of average plant life cycle, im-
provement of gas and steam turbine
performance, and service activities per-
formed on machinery manufactured by
third parties.
MIRATECH: Miratech Corp. has an-
nounced the appointment of Courtney
McAlpine as
power generation
administrator, an
inside sales posi-
tion. McAlpine
will handle Power
Generation sales
inquiries, order
entry, and coor-
dinate service and
training activities with customers.
C. McAlpine
GTE: GTE announced Lee Wilkinson
sales director for the company’s Euro-
pean power gen-
eration market.
In this role, Wil-
kinson will direct
business devel-
opment opera-
tions to expand
GTE’s power
generation busi-
ness from its
northeast Lincolnshire, United
Kingdom, office.
L. Wilkinson
