Sturtevant benefits from a highly skilled production department headed by Wayne Doherty, Chief Manufacturing Officer, who has been with Sturtevant since May of 1973. His purchasing agents, Kathleen Leary and George Ford, have years of experience buying fabrications and components necessary to make Sturtevant equipment reliable. Our shop is staffed by the sons and a grandson of former Sturtevant employees. While Sturtevant outsources much of its parts machining and fabrication, we retain full capabilities in both disciplines to assure prompt quality.

Eric Stuart heads the engineering department responsible for the design, analysis and development of our equipment. Eric joined us in the Fall of 2010 from Cumberland Engineering where he had a successful career as the Engineering Manager. Eric’s staff includes a professional engineer, Graham MacNeil, and Sandee Eshner, a Mechanical Engineer with additional responsibility for control panel design and Bill Paletta, the Department’s Designer/Checker.

William Chapman, Jr., runs our process lab and serves as our Service Manager and Senior Technician. Bill is the son of a former Sturtevant employee and has been with the company operating and troubleshooting Sturtevant equipment since 1974. William is assisted by Bill MacNeil, Sturtevant’s Laboratory Service Technician who provides assistance in the planning, set-up, conduct, and reporting of dry process machinery tests performed in the Sturtevant Process Laboratory.

Joseph Muscolino started with the Company in January of 1984. Joe leads our Sales Department and is the Product Manager for the Air Classification lines of equipment. Joe is recognized throughout the world for his expertise applying air classifiers and Micronizers®.

Rick Fortini, our Parts Manager, spent 20 years in our engineering department beginning in 1976 as Chief Engineer before transferring to Sales. His skill in sourcing appropriate parts, even for machines 50+ years old, is unmatched.

Steven Coulombe, Product Manager who has handled our Powderizer® classifier mill and Simpactor® pin mill product line solutions since the fall of 2005. Steve has 25 years of experience in powder and industry systems. His depth of knowledge comes from working with plants, beginning as a field service technician, through inventing new equipment, designing and engineering new systems working with customers to realize the most cost-effective, highest-performance solutions.

Afshin Nayeri, Sales Engineer for the Micronizer®. Af joined Sturtevant in the Spring of 2006. Af brings with him extensive knowledge of de-agglomeration, particle size reduction, emulsification and dispersion of solids and liquids. As a Sales Engineer and Application Engineer for process equipment manufacturers, he recommended technical solutions as well as provided technical support and start-up assistance for the represented products in the powder and system solutions.

Charlotte Stevens, Marketing Manager. Charlotte joined Sturtevant Inc. in the spring of 1999 in Administration and Office Management. As her product knowledge base expanded, Charlotte began to serve a supporting role in sales. In 2004, she accepted additional responsibility for the marketing of Sturtevant products worldwide.

In June of 2003, management of the company passed from William S. English to W. Sturtevant English, Jr. Mr. English, Sr., has over 50 years with the company and remains active seeking new technologies.

On January, 31, 2006, the Board of Directors at Sturtevant named W. Sturtevant English, Jr., to the position of President. Mr. English, Jr., has been with the company for over 19 years with added past experience outside the company in banking, mergers and acquisitions, and consulting. Mr. English, Jr., represents the fifth generation of family to manage Sturtevant.