EMEC hires area sales manager

EMEC Machine Tools, Mississauga, Ont., has hired Roy Schaefer as its new area sales manager for the region surrounding Cambridge, Kitchener, and Waterloo, Ont.

With more than 30 years of experience in the manufacturing and machine tool industries, Schaefer brings a wealth of knowledge and shop floor experience of these industries to the job.

He has a Certificate of Tool and Die Apprenticeship and a Certificate of Qualification Tool and Die Maker from Conestoga College. He began his career as a tool- and diemaker before moving into the CNC machining department as a CAD/CAM programmer and then on to the department manager.

For the past 10 years Schaefer worked as an applications engineer and finally as a machine tool sales manager.