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Kevin Taylor has been named director of a new business unit at Whessoe Varec, uniting the company's oil and gas tank gauging and Scada systems integration businesses. Taylor will be responsible for the company's tank gauge range, its remote server units, and the FuelsManager Windows NT Scada software from its sister company, Coggins Systems.

* New duo at Valvestock

Valvestock has appointed Graham Lipscombe and Stewart Young to help boost the company's technical expertise in the area of actuated valves. Both will be based at the Valvestock head office in Fareham.

* Transfer activity at CELTIC

Paul Myers has joined Cardiff-based environmental consultants CELTIC Technologies as a business team leader responsible for contaminated land remediation. He was previously a principal design engineer at AMEC, where he worked at such diverse sites as the Royal Arsenal at Woolwich, the M66, and Sellafield.

* Nice and cheesy does it

Wincanton Engineering has appointed Mike Nightingale as sales manager for cheese systems, responsible for UK and Ireland. He has ten years' experience of the food industry, including a spell with cracker maker Nabisco. The company has also appointed Paul Sainsbury as senior project engineer and Paul Stanzl as senior design engineer.

* The son also rises

Pacepacker has named Spencer Christy as its new managing director. He succeeds his father, the company's founder Robert Christy, who will become company chairman and director of engineering. `The transition from one generation to the next has been met with approval from employees,' the company says.

* KCC's sunshine band

KCC Process Equipment has announced a raft of new appointments, headed by Michael Kirk, named as chairman and chief executive. Kirk's former role, general manager for the UK arm of the business, will be taken by John Shuttleworth. Barry Graham will become general manager of the Abu Dhabi office, while Kingley Onojaife will have the task of heading up the new Houston office, opening early next year.

* Bullen an engineering shop

Consulting civil, structural and environmental engineers Bullen Consulting has named Bill Steven as director of its new Glasgow-based process engineering division, which will provide consultancy services to water authorities and the private sector. He will be assisted by Simon Trumper, a specialist in design and installation of waste water treatment plant.