14.01.2016

Sales & marketing director for Ascendant

The owner of Ascendant Access - Redwood Engineering - has appointed Richard Tindale as director of sales & marketing.

The new role is aimed at taking the company’s growth to the next levels, and includes responsibility for all areas of activity including vehicle mounted access platforms, transport trailers and new innovations.

Tindale has a long experience in sales & marketing within the access industry, having previously worked in the UK, Ireland and the USA with a number of companies, including Simon, UpRight, Snorkel, Versalift and Gardner Denver and IAPS, which he left 12 months ago to develop The Partsyard, supplying used and obsolete machine replacement parts for the powered access industry.
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Richard Tindale

Ascendant Access, now in its 15th year, manufactures van and truck mounted platforms, its recently revised product range, focusing on 3.5 tonne vehicles, increased production capacity and investment in additional design engineers has provided opportunities to expand Ascendant’s customer base.

The company has also developed an innovative semi-trailer system based on a 7.5 tonne tractor unit for more efficient equipment deliveries, which is currently undergoing field trials. The company will also shortly launch the ‘I-Foot’ integrated outrigger foot and spreader plate devised by Shareholder Gordon Leicester. It will be available for licensing by manufacturers of cranes and aerial lifts, to incorporate in their own machines.
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Ascendant's updated range focuses on 3.5 tonne vehicles

Tindale said: “I am delighted to get the opportunity to work with Redwood Engineering, one of the few UK owned access platform manufacturers. I have always had a high regard for the quality of the platforms manufactured by Ascendant under the design leadership of Steve Dean. The new investment and professional management introduced by the parent group over the last two years provides a great opportunity to significantly grow market share in our home market and worldwide and I am looking forward to the challenge.”