Andrew J. Norman Appointed Vice President and General Manager Of Masoneilan.Business Editors HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 5, 2002 Former Senior Vice President of Product Marketing and Development Chosen to Lead Control Valve A device that modulates the flow of fluid in a conduit in response to a signal from a process measurement control system. Product Line of Dresser, Inc. Dresser Measurement & Control President Charles Wolley today announced the appointment of Andrew J. Norman to the newly created position of vice president and general manager of Masoneilan, the control valve product line of Dresser, Inc. "Andrew's in-depth knowledge of the Masoneilan business and his leadership role in the development and implementation of our current strategies makes him a natural choice to lead this organization," stated Wolley. Mr. Norman will be responsible for operations, product development, engineering, customer service and support worldwide for the product line. He is currently based in Avon, Mass., at the Masoneilan U.S. headquarters and will continue to office there. Mr. Norman was previously senior vice president of product marketing and development for the Dresser Flow Control business unit, starting in 1999. Prior to that assignment, he held a similar role for the Dresser Valve & Controls division starting in 1995. He came to Dresser from Schindler Elevator elevator, in machinery elevator, in machinery, device for transporting people or goods from one level to another. The term is applied to the enclosed structures as well as the open platforms used to provide vertical transportation in buildings, large ships, Corp., where he held various senior management positions in corporate development, manufacturing information systems, technology, marketing, and product development from 1986 to 1995, in the U.S. and Switzerland. Earlier in his career, from 1980 to 1985, Mr. Norman worked successively as an engineer, production engineering manager, and consultant in the U.K. and The Netherlands for Marconi Space and Defense Systems, MARS Electronics, and Philips Electronics. Mr. Norman is the holder of a B.A. degree (Hons) in Engineering Science from St. Johns College, Oxford University, U.K. (1979), an M.Sc. in Control Systems from the Imperial College, University of London For most practical purposes, ranging from admission of students to negotiating funding from the government, the 19 constituent colleges are treated as individual universities. Within the university federation they are known as Recognised Bodies , U.K. (1980), and an M.B.A. from the Institut Superieur d'Administration d'Affaires, Fontainebleau, France (1991). He is a Chartered Engineer In many countries, professional engineers are called Chartered Engineers. The details of registration vary from country to country. Chartered Engineer may refer to:
Masoneilan is an international leader in the design, manufacture, and support of final process control elements and solutions. Products include reciprocating, rotary, and severe service control valves Control valves are valves used within industrial plants and elsewhere to control operating conditions such as temperature, pressure, flow, and liquid level by fully or partially opening or closing in response to signals received from controllers that compare a "setpoint" to a , regulators, levels, and field instrumentation. Masoneilan has served petrochemical petrochemical, any one of a large group of chemicals derived from a component of petroleum or natural gas. The cracking processes for manufacturing gasoline produce vast quantities of gaseous hydrocarbons. , refining refining, any of various processes for separating impurities from crude or semifinished materials. It includes the finer processes of metallurgy, the fractional distillation of petroleum into its commercial products, and the purifying of cane, beet, and maple sugar , chemical, power generation, and other process industries worldwide for over 100 years. The product line is part of Dresser Measurement & Control, a business unit of Dresser, Inc. Headquartered in Dallas, Dresser, Inc. is a worldwide leader in the design, manufacture and marketing of highly engineered equipment and services sold primarily to customers in the flow control, measurement systems, and power systems segments of the energy industry. Dresser has a widely distributed Adj. 1. widely distributed - growing or occurring in many parts of the world; "a cosmopolitan herb"; "cosmopolitan in distribution" cosmopolitan bionomics, environmental science, ecology - the branch of biology concerned with the relations between organisms global presence, with over 8,000 employees and a sales presence in over 100 countries worldwide. The company's website can be accessed at www.dresser.com. |
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