JCB North America appointed Tim Witter vice president of manufacturing. Witter will be responsible for JCB’s North American Manufacturing Center, which builds the company’s skid-steer loaders, compact track loaders, the 3CX backhoe loader and the high-mobility engineer excavator.
Witter now oversees all of the Savannah, Ga.-based manufacturing departments including engineering, production, manufacturing, purchasing and logistics. He also oversees production control, manufacturing engineering, quality, new product introductions and provides direction for global production of JCB skid-steer and compact track loaders.
Witter joins JCB with extensive manufacturing experience including more than 18 years at Gorbel Inc., a handling solutions manufacturer where he was vice president of operations. He also worked as engineering manufacturer for Champion Products and director of operations at The Melton Shirt Co.
“Tim brings a wealth of knowledge and experience to this critical manufacturing position, and we look forward to the contributions his expertise will bring to JCB as we continue to manufacture innovative, industry-leading construction and agricultural equipment.”
Witter is replacing Stuart Hughes, who returned to JCB’s global headquarters in Rocester, U.K., to take on a similar role.
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Michael Roth has covered the equipment rental industry full time for RER since 1989 and has served as the magazine’s editor in chief since 1994. He has nearly 30 years experience as a professional journalist. Roth has visited hundreds of rental centers and industry manufacturers, written hundreds of feature stories for RER and thousands of news stories for the magazine and its electronic newsletter RER Reports. Roth has interviewed leading executives for most of the industry’s largest rental companies and manufacturers as well as hundreds of smaller independent companies. He has visited with and reported on rental companies and manufacturers in Europe, Central America and Asia as well as Mexico, Canada and the United States. Roth was co-founder of RER Reports, the industry’s first weekly newsletter, which began as a fax newsletter in 1996, and later became an online newsletter. Roth has spoken at conventions sponsored by the American Rental Association, Associated Equipment Distributors, California Rental Association and other industry events and has spoken before industry groups in several countries. He lives and works in Los Angeles when he’s not traveling to cover industry events.