New VP of Engineering at Roll-Kraft

Roll-Kraft (Mentor, OH), a leading supplier of tube and pipe and roll form tooling, has announced the appointment of Yervand Poghosyan as their vice president of engineering. He comes to the company from Dahlstrom Roll Form (Jamestown, NY), where he was the vice president of operations. Poghosyan has held previous positions with the Harwal Group of manufacturing companies, as their CIS executive director and their chief development engineer. He was also their general project manager, overseeing 55 personnel at Ararat Group in Armenia.

He holds a Master’s Degree in machine building technology, metal cutting, and machine tools from State Technical University in Armenia. He also holds a Master’s Degree in Business Administration from the University of Liverpool in the United Kingdom. His training includes FESTO Pneumatic Systems, as well as Roll Design and Advanced Roll Design, and he has worked with noted roll form experts George Halmos and George Dobrev. He is proficient in AutoCad, RH95, and Profil roll design software.

Poghosyan has wide-ranging experience in the roll forming industry and has designed and completed an estimated 100 sets of roll tooling and machines that are in use in various countries around the world. His expertise will add to the company’s technical engineering capabilities and allow them to provide a higher level of engineering services to the roll tooling industry.

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