Terry March has retired as technical manager Emerson Climate Technologies in the UK and Ireland after more than 46 years.

Mr March joined Prestcold in 1969 as a technician apprentice in the days when the Prestcold Theale plant produced semi-hermetic reciprocating compressors under licence from Copeland Corporation in the USA. Throughout his tenure, he was directly involved in the roll-out of a number of important technology developments, none more so than the early launch and promotion of scroll technology for both air-conditioning and refrigeration applications.

Following Terry’s departure the company has made two new appointments.

Andy Butler joins as manager business development UK & Ireland. In addition to maintaining hands-on contact with existing OEMS, he will work with end users, contractors, installers and consultancies, identifying opportunities for business growth and supporting new product development.  He joins Emerson from Greenfield Energy where he worked as technologies manager for heat pumps and refrigeration.  Prior to this Andy held a number of positions in the UK refrigeration sector with Star Refrigeration, Space Engineering and Bath City College. 

In addition, Juraj Pastir joins as manager technical sales UK, Ireland and Nordic region. Juraj will strengthen Emerson’s technical support across the region and will relocate to the UK from Emerson’s Mikulov facility in the Czech Republic where he was involved in the development and planning of Copeland Stream Semi-hermetic compressors for HFC and CO2.