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Kevin Bell grew his youthful fascination with machinery into his first engineering company in New Zealand at age 23. Now he’s the CEO of GTech USA and says it has never been more important for businesses to make the most efficient use of resources, which drives constant innovation at his company.
By Sharla Ishmael
F passion. Growing up in New Zealand, his father’s transport company gave him the chance to get his hands dirty rebuilding engines and gearboxes. As a teenager,
a growing presence in rendering, oil and gas, environmental
In a way, things have come full circle since the early days of parts for a local rendering business.
in, and I started grinding the hole plates, the mincer plates and manufacturing spare parts for their centrifuges. We got into rebuilding the decanters and the separators, and then that’s
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other industries before being acquired by Alfa Laval in 2008. around, as are some of the people who built them.
Within the rendering part of its operations, innovation, and compete with much bigger companies.
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