Despite the current economic climate Allen Coding Systems has announced Paul Newman as its new regional sales manager with responsibility for the south and mid-west of the UK.

Allen Coding Systems is part of ITW and one of Europe’s leading providers of high performance thermal transfer, hot foil and laser coding and marking systems.

In line with the company’s ambitious growth strategy, Newman will be responsible for boosting sales of the company’s complete range of coding and marking equipment plus associated consumables such as hot foil tapes and type, machine spares, thermal ribbon and type holders.

Newman brings extensive packaging industry experience to his new role including approximately 12 years selling coding and marking equipment. Prior to joining Allen Coding, he spent three years as area sales manager at Sauven Marking and during his early career, also worked for Imaje and Videojet.

Allen Coding Systems has been designing and manufacturing high quality overprinting equipment for in excess of 30 years. As one of Europe’s leading manufacturers of laser, hot foil and thermal transfer coding systems, Allen supplies companies in a wide range of markets including food and beverages.