Nordson Corp., Westlake, Ohio, has promoted Udo Grund to senior sales development manager of global projects and inside sales for the company's subsidiary, Nordson BKG, Münster, Germany, a supplier of underwater pelletizing systems.
Grund, who has worked in a variety of roles for the subsidiary since 2001, will be responsible for sales to polymer companies, as well as management of key projects in support of Nordson's global sales team. Most recently, he worked as a sales manager responsible for sales in four European countries, China, Taiwan and Southeast Asia.
James R. Winning has been promoted to regional sales manager for Nordson's Extrusion Dies Industries brand of extrusion and coating dies.
Winning will be responsible for sales in New England, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland and Delaware, as well as the Canadian provinces of Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick and Newfoundland. He previously worked for American Kuhne Inc., Ashaway, R.I., where he was product manager for turnkey narrow web and laboratory extrusion coating lines.