11.07.2006

New MD for Penny & Giles

Kevin Rayment has been named as managing director of Curtiss-Wright Controls Integrated Sensing Europe, the Curtiss-Wright division that comprises Penny & Giles Controls and Penny&Giles Aerospace.

Penny &Giles is a leading producer of Joysticks that are used throughout the Crane, access and telehandler industries, both directly on the equipment and within remote controllers. It also produces a wide range of sensors, an increasing number of which are built into modern lifting equipment.
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Kevin Rayment

Rayment will lead an eight-strong management team, and head up the Company’s UK manufacturing operations in Christchurch, Dorset and Cwmfelinfach, Gwent as well as be responsible for its sales offices in Germany and the USA.
Rayment joined Curtiss-Wright in July 2004, prior to which he worked with Accentus and GTL Microsystems.

“Kevin is a strong leader with a wealth of experience in operations management, business development and engineering” commented Mr. Ray New, Vice President of Curtiss-Wright Controls Integrated Sensing. “He has provided significant leadership to our UK based operations and will be an added attribute to the overall Curtiss-Wright Controls management team”. “I’m confident Kevin will continue to pursue our strategy of successful growth and long-term profitability”, added Mr. New.

“The increased synergy between the two businesses provides us with a fantastic opportunity,” explains Rayment, who is aiming at a significant growth for the company.

“The market is driving a natural migration between the two offerings. Industry is demanding the higher specification in performance-critical components that we’ve been supplying to the aerospace market for more than 50 years and aerospace is under pressure to find high volume solutions that can still offer reliability and accuracy.”