Kitagawa North-Tech Adds Sales Manager

Kitagawa North-Tech, Inc. (Schaumburg, IL), one of the most trusted brand names in standard chucks, advanced chucks, custom engineered workholding and steady rests, has announced Shawn Luschei has rejoined the company as a senior manager of sales for North America. He has over 23 years of workholding industry experience and is responsible for managing the regional sales managers, supporting OEMs and channel partners and further developing the engineered rotational and prismatic workholding business for the company.  He began his career in workholding with them in 1994, at the present corporate and manufacturing facility located in Schaumburg, IL. He joined the company as an inside sales representative and was promoted to various sales management positions through his 17-year tenure. In 2011, Luschei left to launch Toolmex’s new workholding and power chucks division and spent 5 years there in that capacity.

In his new role, the primary focus is to support the custom engineered solutions business sales efforts. Kitagawa’s engineered workholding solutions capability is managed by their productivity (P) team. The P team consists of an in-house applications engineering team committed to developing custom workholding for turning and prismatic applications. In addition to designing and engineering custom solutions, the company utilizes their inhouse design, manufacturing, inspection and testing facility to manufacturer, modify and test components and workholding systems for their customers.

Working out of the North American headquarters, Luschei reports to Kevin Bennett, the vice president of sales and marketing. Bennett adds, “We are excited to have Shawn back as he has extensive workholding industry expertise and knowledge and he will be a great asset to our sales management team. This demonstrates our commitment to customers that we recruit only quality talent to help us in our quest to deliver to them “the best” standard chucks, advanced and engineered workholding products and services available.”

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