Welding equipment manufacturer Kemppi (UK) has appointed Darren Glover (40) as its new Technical Welding Specialist covering the North of England.
Welding equipment manufacturer Kemppi (UK) has appointed Darren Glover (40) as its new Technical Welding Specialist covering the North of England. Glover will be responsible for providing technical welding and product support covering the whole range of Kemppi equipment as well as carrying out equipment demonstrations and providing advice for both distributors and end user customers. After leaving school, Glover served a full engineering apprenticeship in his hometown of Doncaster, Yorkshire and has since gained considerable experience of industrial fabrications for the pressure vessel, mining equipment and steel making industries.

His employers have included Corus Group, Clyde Bergemann and Outokumpu.

Glover is currently undergoing an intensive programme of internal training at Bedford to become fully conversant with the company's range of welding products.

Glover is single, still lives in Doncaster and is a keen sportsman with a head for heights.

In 2002 he won Gold in the British Freefly Sky Diving Championship category B.

Most weekends with the weather permitting you will find him jumping out of planes.