Frank Altenhofen

PORTLAND, OR, United States
Cascade Corp has appointed Frank Altenhofen as vice president for the Americas. He will be responsible for manufacturing at Cascade's six US and Canadian plants. He was general manager for Cascade's Xiamen and Hebei operations in China from 1995 to 1998. Altenhofen initially joined Cascade in 1983 but left in 2001 to work as director of operations then president for a medical device and surgical instruments company.

McCONNELLSBURG, PA, United States
JLG Industries has promoted Chris Mellot to vice president of customer assurance, Brent Yohn to vice president of field sales and service for North America, and Todd Truax to director of training.

Chris Mellot

Mellot started with JLG in 1995. He focused on interacting with and meeting the needs of JLG's customers. He will be responsible for customer contact centres and training and warranty groups for North America.

Yohn has held management positions in sales and service since starting with JLG in 1995. He will be responsible for sales and service activities through JLG's regional distribution channels.

Truax was general manager of JLG's mid-Atlantic ServicePlus facility. He has 12 years of sales and marketing experience at JLG.

ENSCHEDE, The Netherlands
Geurt de Groot is Atlet BV's new managing director. He replaces Piet Egbers who will focus on expanding Atlet in France. De Groot has been a member of Atlet BV's sales management team for 13 years. He started as field sales manager and his most recent position was deputy managing director.

Chris Hawley

ABERDEEN, United Kingdom
Chris Hawley has joined battery provider Norco Group as key accounts manager. He worked for CMP Batteries Ltd for about 40 years as aftermarket sales manager for the UK and Ireland. He was awarded the UK Fork Lift Truck Association's lifetime achievement award this year.