Danfoss, Baltimore, MD, is combining its commercial compressors factories in Lawrenceville, GA, and scroll technologies in Arkadelphia, AR, into a single organization.
Dr. Carlos Zamudio, who is based in Arkadelphia, will head the combined US Commercial Compressor organization as its general manager. Prior to this assignment, Dr. Zamudio served as the general manager of Scroll Technologies.
The new structure is aimed at achieving improved customer service and performance through the deployment of the Danfoss Business System, which is Danfoss’s approach to achieving world-class performance in manufacturing, sales, and purchasing.
The new structure supports long-term, customer-orientated, organizational and integration objectives. The new organization will employ over 1,000 people and offer solutions to a wide range of applications in the residential and commercial air-conditioning business.
Randy Jacoby will move from Arkadelphia, where he served as the director of assembly operations, to Lawrenceville as Director of Operations. Randy Jacoby brings to this position more than 30 years of customer-orientated manufacturing management experience.
Zamudio holds a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering and will report to Didier Pradeilles, senior vice president of Danfoss Commercial Compressors.