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Avon Engineering names vice president for coil packaging systems

Avon Engineering Ltd., Waterdown, Ont., a division of Bushman Equipment Inc., has named Steve Baker as vice president for coil packaging systems.

Baker focuses on expanding Avon's market share of packaging equipment and systems for steel and nonferrous metal processors with slitting and cut-to-length capabilities. He plans to increase visibility for the full family of products from Bushman Equipment Inc. and its Avon Engineering and West Bend Equipment divisions. Baker, who has a background in the steel service center market, previously was business manager-service center group for SMS Demag.

Avon Engineering designs and builds material handling equipment, strip process machinery, and pressroom automation equipment. Bushman Equipment produces built-to-order material handling equipment for various mill-duty, high-capacity, high-cycle industrial applications.