AIDA-America Announces Leadership Change

AIDA-America Corporation (Dayton, OH) and Qualtek Manufacturing Inc. (Colorado Springs, CO) are jointly announcing leadership changes within their respective organizations. Troy Roberts, the current president and chief operating officer of AIDA-America, will be transitioning to the position of chief executive officer at Qualtek Manufacturing effective December 1, 2016. His decision to leave AIDA-America was prompted by the opportunity at Qualtek and his strong desire to be closer to family and the great outdoors.

While Roberts will be missed, he is leaving AIDA-America as a North American market leader of metalforming suppliers and in the very capable hands of the 200 associates that he has worked with over the past 21 years. In his new role at Qualtek, he will lead their team in achieving their goal to become the premier stamping, heat treating and metal finishing supplier to aerospace, medical device and automotive manufacturers.

Pat Ambuske, the current vice president of operations at AIDA-America, will succeed Roberts as president and chief executive officer effective December 1. Ambuske joined AIDA-America in 2001 and has held various leadership roles over planning, engineering, purchasing and manufacturing functions during his 15-year tenure at the company. He has played a key role in much of the company’s recent success. With his guidance, their local engineering team has experienced significant growth. He has helped sharpen their focus on solutions that are designed for North American stampers, specifically applying AIDA servo technology to a
wide range of products. Significant plant and manufacturing operations expansions have taken place under his leadership, positioning the company as one of the largest and most advanced manufacturer of stamping presses in North America.

Ambuske will continue to build on the company’s success as a leader in servo press technology. As a team, AIDA-America will continue to push forward the policies of constant product improvement and deep partnership with customers to create the most effective production systems. They will also maintain the standard of excellence in customer service and on-going support.

Both Roberts and Ambuske will be attending the FABTECH 2016 tradeshow taking place November 16-18 at the Las Vegas Convention Center and will be greeting visitors, customers, industry professionals and all others in Booth C-17024 for AIDA-America. They encourage all interested parties to visit the booth to personally discuss this exciting new chapter for both Qualtek and AIDA-America.

Qualtek manufactures high quality specialty metal parts and provides metal stamping, heat-treating, finishing, and wire EDM services from their Colorado Springs location. The company is privately held, has been in operation for more than 50 years, and is ISO 9001:2008 certified and OSHA SHARP certified. They are Q-munity© founded and
support Blue Star Recyclers, an award-winning 501c3 sustainable enterprise that creates local jobs for people with autism and other disabilities by ethically recycling electronics.

AIDA is a global leader in the design, manufacture, sale, service and support, refurbishment and modernization of metal stamping presses and metalforming automation equipment. Their servo and mechanical stamping presses range in capacity from 35 tons to 4,000 tons, from 1 spm to 1,500 spm, from gap frame to straightside, high speed to cold forging, transfer and progressive die, material handling and coil feeding equipment. This is one of the broadest selections of complete metalforming systems from a single manufacturer.

With a worldwide network of sales and service locations in 38 cities across 20 countries, AIDA press installations exceed 80,000 units in over 60 countries worldwide, producing a
range of products for industries such as automotive, appliance, electronics and electrical.

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