Sumitomo (SHI) Demag Plastics Machinery GmbH, Schwaig, Germany, expanded its North American sales and service groups.
Masaaki Michishita is international sales manager, based at the injection press maker's U.S. headquarters in Norcross, Ga.
Jun Akimoto is international field sales associate in Norcross.
Michael Uhrain is technical sales manager, packaging, based in Strongsville, Ohio.
Dan Anderson and Jeremy Krismer are direct sales representatives for Illinois and Texas, respectively.
Jim Shaw and Christler Equipment Technologies LLC are manufacturers' reps for Oregon, Washington and parts of Idaho as well as three Canadian provinces: British Columbia, Alberta and Saskatchewan.
Sumitomo also added field service engineers:
David Smith, in Strongsville, covers the Northeast and Southeast.
Cesar Rosales is in Chicago.
Roy Lawson is in Dunlap, Tenn., near Chattanooga.
Manuel Camez is in Temecula, Calif.
As of September, Mike Harrold is based in Connecticut.
