Astech appoints business development manager
Astech Projects has boosted its sales team with the appointment of John Roberts as business development manager.
Roberts has more than 15 years' experience in the packaging industry and the Runcorn supplier of automation products hopes to use this to establish the company as a world class systems integrator within these specialised markets.
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