Hardinge Hires Regional Sales Manager

Hardinge Inc. (Elmira, NY) announced that Kennedy Pope recently joined the company as their new regional sales manager for the Southeast Turning & Milling Group. He will report to Brooke Sykes, the director of the Sales & Service Turning/Milling Group. “We are very excited to have an individual of such knowledge of the customers in the southeast territory and long tenured experience as Ken join Hardinge. With his background and personal attributes, he will undoubtedly help drive our success in the Southeast market,” said Sykes.

Pope comes to the company with 30 years of experience in sales and sales management in the machine tool industry. He began his career with J&H Machine Tools (Charlotte, NC) and most recently was a regional sales manager for Emag LLC.

Hardinge is a global designer, manufacturer and distributor of machine tools, specializing in Super-Precision^TM and precision CNC Lathes, high performance Machining Centers, high-end cylindrical and jig Grinding machines, and technologically advanced Workholding & Rotary Products. Hardinge is also the world’s largest manufacturer of collets (5C Collets, 16C Collets, 20C Collets, Swiss Collets and other styles) for all brands of machines including custom engineered solutions.

The company has a very diverse customer base and serves a wide variety of end-user markets, including metalworking manufacturers that make parts for a variety of industries, as well as a wide range of end users in the aerospace, agricultural, transportation, basic consumer goods, communications and electronics, construction, defense, energy, pharmaceutical and medical equipment, and recreation industries, among others. Hardinge has manufacturing operations in the United States, Switzerland, Taiwan, and China.

www.hardinge.com