Steve Blanche is Guill's New Sales Manager for New England, NJ, NY and PA

Effective April 1, 2010, Mr. Stephen Blanche is Guill Tool & Engineering Inc.’s Sales Manager for New England as well as New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania. Prior to this Mr. Blanche was Guill’s National Sales Representative Manager.

According to Glen Guillemette, President of Guill Tool & Engineering, “Steve Blanche’s dedicated years of service at Guill, combined with his thorough understanding of our diversified and growing product lines, makes him the ideal candidate to help focus our new business efforts in New England and the Northeast corridor areas. This territory demands more intensive sales efforts because it’s our home region. Steve is now poised to work with a growing list of OEMs and extrusion manufacturers for advanced medical and industrial tooling.”

With more than 30 years of experience in sales and operations management, Mr. Blanche was previously President of ETCO Cord Products, an electrical terminal manufacturer based in Warwick, Rhode Island. Earlier in his career, he was involved with Technical Education at schools at both the secondary and post-secondary levels.

Mr. Blanche earned B.S. and M.A. degrees in Technical Education from Rhode Island College and the University of Rhode Island, respectively. He has extensive experience with the Phillip Crosby Principles of Quality Management and has distinguished himself by the six patents he holds for electrical terminal products.

Guill’s 50 Years Experience

With almost a half century of experience, Guill is recognized as a leading designer and manufacturer of extrusion tooling for advanced applications that include: medical tubing, multi-lumen tubing, multi-layer co-extruded products, profile products, and fiber optics. Guill has an established track record of outstanding performance for extrusion tooling for medical, marine, automotive, and pelletized products; wood composites; blow-molding; rubber and silicone; pipes and hoses; wires and cables, food and packaging as well as military applications.

Since 1995, Guill has achieved ISO 9001 Certification. The ISO 9001 Standard guides the work processes on all business and manufacturing levels. The continual quest for manufacturing improvement is key to all daily efforts and end products.

With the latest CAD/MCAD connected with FEA and Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) systems, Guill engineers have developed the FlexiSpiral deflector the patented FeatherTouch die adjusting system for ease of adjustment; the SealRight system; and the QuickChange Manifold for rapid change of color and/or materials.

Guill also offers inline heads and crossheads; no-leak water cooled heads; both industry standard and custom-made tips and dies; spiderless inline tips and dies; cartridge heater systems; flanges; breaker plates; swing gates; forming rolls; sizing dies; and other special equipment.

For a free evaluation, technical product sheets, and general information—or for the name of a representative in your area—please contact Guill Tool & Engineering Co., Inc. at 10 Pike Street, West Warwick, RI 02893 (USA). Tel: (401) 828-7600. Fax: (401) 823-5310. Email: sales@guill.com; www.Guill.com.