BluTec Machinery names territory manager for Florida

Hickory, N.C.-based BluTec Machinery has appointed Joy Abbitt as a Florida territory manager. BluTec is a distributor for MC Machinery lasers, automation, press brakes, and shears covering Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, eastern Tennessee, and part of West Virginia.

Abbitt has worked in advanced machinery sales and service for the past seven years. A Navy veteran and graduate of the U.S. Naval Aviation Technical Training Center in Pensacola, Fla., she served on the U.S.S. Carl Vinson as an avionics technician on F-18 Super Hornet fighter jets.