Heatmiser has made appointed a new operations manager and a new business development manager.
The company said the new appointments come as it has been given a key role in the Climate Control division of parent company IMI following the £110m acquisition of the Blackburn-based business in 2022.
David Goldsbrough joins the company as operations manager, responsible for improvements to production quality, warehouse management and on-site health and safety. According to Heatmiser, David is an experienced operations manager. In his previous role he was QHSE manager at Silicone Engineering.
The company has also appointed a new business development manager. Neil Budd joins the company from Wavin, where he served as global product manager. He also previously worked for Purmo Group and Emmeti UK.
Further developments at Heatmiser during 2024 includes investment in the manufacturing centre in Blackburn.
The company said there has also been significant investment and strengthening of its Product Research and Development capacity, as well as improvement to its logistics operation.
Marc Robertson, Heatmiser’s managing director, said: “We have invested in the people and business infrastructure to improve the already excellent customer service and experience. David will help us to build our culture of empowering people to implement improvements across all of our manufacturing processes and customer service, while Neil can bring a wealth of industry commercial experience to ensure our continued success.
“Heatmiser, which adds more than 50 years of thermostat control knowledge to IMI’s global offer, is now operating with a group of businesses that brings homeowners an increasing range of world-leading climate control systems. This further strengthens the range and quality of product options we can bring to the UK market and our customers at a time when the UK home heating market is becoming more sophisticated, including the introduction of cooling technologies, leveraging heat pump cooling functionality to underfloor systems.”
The companies operating under the IMI Climate Control umbrella include Heatmiser, IMI Pneumatex, IMI Heimeier, IMI TA and IMI Flow Design.