Bourn & Koch Appoints National Sales Manager

Bourn & Koch, Inc. reported that Ross Wegryn-Jones has recently joined the company as National Sales Manager. He will be responsible for the sales of gear manufacturing machines, precision grinding machines and specialty machine tools for unique manufacturing applications. This includes Bourn & Koch horizontal gear hobbers, Fellows gear shapers, Blanchard rotary surface grinders and Bourn & Koch's new MT3 vertical grinding machine.

Wegryn-Jones will support the existing customer base and grow Bourn & Koch's presence across North America. Bourn & Koch is primarily known for supporting many familiar names in American machine tool manufacturing, such as Bullard, Blanchard, DeVlieg and Fellows. Wegryn-Jones will work to increase awareness and further develop the custom solutions Bourn & Koch can provide from this portfolio of machine tool technology.

"I am truly honored to join the Bourn & Koch team with its deep engineering and technical knowledge," said Wegryn-Jones. "I am eager to engage with our vast customer base and provide them with innovative machine tool solutions for the modern era."

To this new role, Wegryn-Jones brings 30 years of experience in the manufacturing industry with his most recent posts as regional sales manager at Jet Edge Waterjet Systems and previously with Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, promoting their gear manufacturing solutions. He started in manufacturing sales for Aercology mist collectors, where he first became familiar with Blanchard grinders, working with customers to help better control the coolant mist.

For more information contact:

Bourn & Koch Inc.

2500 Kishwaukee Street

Rockford, IL 61104

815-965-4013

machinesales@bourn-koch.com

www.bourn-koch.com