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Belvac Announces New Strategic Hire

11/04/08

Lynchburg, Va. – Nov 4, 2008

Belvac Production Machinery, a manufacturer of high-speed production machinery for the can making and the plastic container industries, has announced that W. Eric Hodge has joined the company as Director, Marketing and Customer Support.

Mr. Hodge comes to Belvac with over 20 yrs. of industrial capital goods experience, most recently serving as Director of Global Service Operations for 3D Systems. Prior to that Mr. Hodge applied his formal education in Electrical Technology from the Devry Institute to lead several technical and customer support organizations including Peak Technologies, QMS, and Gentry Associates. At Belvac, Mr. Hodge will be responsible for strategic development and oversight of customer support and technical programs as well as marketing functions.


“Mr. Hodge’s extensive background in the directing of marketing technical customer service and marketing of the service function to global capital equipment users as well as technical and customer support arenas will enhance Belvac’s efforts to provide the Can Making and Plastics Industry with a world class, broadly trained, highly responsive, global technical and service network,” said Rick Steigerwald, President of Belvac.


About Belvac Production Machinery
Belvac is the world leader in the design and production continuous motion rotary machinery. Belvac provides beverage can makers with high-speed trimming, necking, base reprofiling and reforming, shaping, bottom rim coating, flanging and inspection technology. Over the years, Belvac have been responsible for numerous advances in can making technology. This technology has enabled Belvac’s customers to steadily increase line speeds and improve quality and productivity, while significantly reducing materials costs.
Belvac is part of the multibillion-dollar Dover Corporation (NYSE-DOV) and it is the world leader in its industry. For over forty years, Belvac has turned innovative ideas into world-class machinery. Belvac continues to revolutionize many packaging manufacturing processes in both the Can Making and Plastics Container industry.