Category: Meet the Team

Meet Mark Bergel, Regional Sales Manager – Great Lakes Region, for Aalberts surface technologies HIP | braze | heat treatment. His territory covers Michigan, Illinois, and Ontario. He has been part of the sales team for almost four years. The biggest challenge Mark navigated over the last few years is the effect of COVID on customer relationships. “The number of people that work

Meet Tony Geyman, Regional Sales Manager – North & West, at Aalberts surface technologies HIP | braze | heat treatment. His territory covers states in the Northwest US from Wisconsin south to Iowa and west to Oregon, as well as the western Canadian Provinces west of Ontario. He started working with the company seven years ago. Over his tenure, he says he is

Meet JP Square, Aalberts surface technologies’ Regional Sales Manager for the South and West. He is based in Tulsa, OK. JP has been part of the Aalberts team for 4 ½ years. He started with Applied Process which is now part of Aalberts surface technologies. JP worked closely with the facility in Fort Smith, Arkansas. That facility was just starting up when he

Meet Sam Postich, Lead HIP Technician at Aalberts surface technologies – HIP | braze | heat treatment’s HIP’ing Center of Excellence. Sam is based in the Garlington facility in Greenville, SC and has been part of the team for almost two years. Sam’s entire career has been in the heat treat industry. He worked in his family’s business while he was in college

Meet Frank Little, Finance Director of Aalberts surface technologies-accurate brazing. Frank is based in the Goffstown, NH facility and has been part of the team for just over 5 years. Frank leads financial reporting, forecasting, and planning for the company. He says one of the biggest challenges of his job is to manage expectations established by our forecasts. He works with the Plant

Meet Brian Thurston. He is the new Quality Manager for Aalberts surface technologies-accurate brazing’s Manchester, CT facility. Brian has been part of the team since mid 2020 and was recently promoted to Quality Manager in Manchester. His road to quality management was not a direct path. He had stints in transportation and manufacturing before he enrolled in Manchester Community College. He concentrated his

Meet Waleska Laureano, better known as “Wale” (pronounced Wally). She currently works in Customer Service at Aalberts surface technologies – accurate brazing’s Manchester, CT shop. She has been part of the team for over 10 years. If you have ever visited or called the Connecticut facility, you have probably talked with Wale. She sits in the front office and loves the daily interaction

Meet Ken Hendrix, Aalberts surface technologies-accurate brazing’s Production Manager at the Garlington facility in Greenville, SC. Ken has been part of the team for six years. He began in an entry-level position doing assembly and inspection. He came to heat treating from a background in carpentry, never having seen a vacuum furnace. Ken says he “worked hard and learned from anyone willing to

Meet Sigfredo “Siggy” Rosario. Siggy is the Shipping Supervisor and also handles maintenance duties for Aalberts surface technologies-accurate brazing’s Manchester, CT facility. He will celebrate five years as part of the team this November. Siggy takes ownership of his work and gives 100% effort to make sure things get done right the first time. His goal is to always deliver customers’ parts on

Meet Joann Francis. She is Aalberts surface technologies – accurate brazing’s office manager based in Goffstown, New Hampshire. Joann has been with AST-accurate brazing since the very beginning. And, that’s why she says, “I’m the OG.” During the company’s early days and throughout her years at Accurate Brazing, she jumped in to do anything and everything when needed – assembling parts, delivering parts