With a previous history in the tooling sector as key account manager, Neil Vine (42) has been appointed by Bushey-based Citizen Machinery UK Ltd (www.citizenmachinery.co.uk) to cover the central Midlands area for both the Citizen Cincom sliding-head machines and Miyano fixed-head turn-mill centres.

Deputy managing director Darren Wilkins said: “Mr Vine brings a strong commercial management and customer development history to CMUK.

He has a long history in the tooling sector, so he will be a valuable asset, working closely with customers and our applications team in maintaining our ‘cost per part’ purchase justification operations.”

Mr Vine has previously been involved in managing regional tooling sales, while working on key accounts involving UK project-based tooling operations.