Ceratizit Bolsters Sales Roster With New Hires
John Cagle and Trent Larsen will serve as technical sales engineers for the company’s South Carolina and North Central sales teams, respectively.
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Ceratizit has added John Cagle to its South Carolina-based sales team. Cagle is said to bring more than 20 years of manufacturing engineering and sales experience to his position as a technical sales engineer. His background includes horizontal and vertical CNC milling and controller programming, EDM machining, CNC grinding and CO2 laser equipment. Cagle has a broad cutting tool industry background, especially with Tier 2 suppliers in the automotive industry.
Cagle’s training and hands-on knowledge spans multiple aspects of programming and machining, from indexable inserts and drilling to threading solutions and carbide milling.
“From a technical perspective, process and application engineering are my strong suits,” Cagle says. “Working closely with manufacturing engineers means I have the opportunity to solve new challenges every day.”
Cagle’s solution-driven focus will serve the practical and production-line challenges customers face across industries.
Additionally, Ceratizit has hired Trent Larsen to its North Central U.S. team as a technical sales engineer. He is based out of Wisconsin and is said to bring 27 years of industry experience in machining and programming to the cutting tool company.
Larsen’s professional background includes working with large and small vertical milling machines, CNC and manual horizontal milling machines and turning centers. His programming experience spans conversational language and G-code programming.
“By nature, I am a problem-solver and have honed the skill throughout my career,” Larsen says. “When I put my decades of experience to work for machinists, there is a professional payoff, and the ultimate reward comes when I am able help someone from a part’s conception to completion.”
With hands-on experience and a commitment to service, Larsen says he is dedicated to Ceratizit’s customer relationships and technical excellence.
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