Chicago Slitter Adds Sales Executive

Chicago Slitter (Itasca, IL), a world leader in the design and manufacture of custom-built, high performance, heavy duty coil slitting, blanking, and cut-to-length lines, announces that Phil Simonpietri has joined the company as sales executive.

He joins the company in continuing to provide innovative coil-processing solutions that can help customers meet and exceed their production requirements, bringing a great level of experience in automation and high speed production equipment. This will play a critical role in the ongoing efforts to further strengthen and increase market share. Simonpietri’s years of sales experience in various markets will help provide customers the ideal production solutions that will save time, reduce costs and increase productivity.

“We are very excited that he has joined us to better serve our customers and grow our business,” says Curtis Maas, chief executive officer. “Our company has a long history of providing customers with high performance slitting and cut-to-length lines, Simonpietri will work closely with our customers to offer manufacturing solutions to help them meet their production goals.”

Prior to joining their team, Simonpietri worked with MAE-Eitel selling specialty presses, and automated manufacturing solutions selling custom automation for machine loading and discrete part processing and assembly/manufacturing. His experience covers the major industry segments of automotive, off-road equipment, agriculture, appliance, aerospace, and electronics.

He holds degrees from the College of William & Mary and the Thunderbird School of Global Management. Early in his career he completed a 150 week technical training program at Cincinnati Milacron for machine tools and robotics for applications and sales engineering management.

The RDI Group, a global leader and parent company of Reichel & Drews, Chicago Slitter, RDI laser blanking systems, and RDI enclosures & systems, specializes in the design and manufacture of industrial systems for diverse, worldwide markets including asphalt roofing, construction, telecommunications, power and metal coil processing industries. Respected for innovation and reliability, the machinery and manufacturing solutions designed and built by the company has been helping customers improve productivity and profits for more than 110 years.They also have a sales office in Beijing, China.

www.chicagoslitter.com, www.therdigroup.com