Palfinger North America names executive vice president

Palfinger North America, a Niagara Falls, Ontario-based manufacturer of truck-mounted articulating cranes, has named Tim Arkilander executive vice president of sales and business development. He will report directly to Mark Woody, managing director of the Palfinger North America Group.

In his new position, Arkilander will be responsible for all Palfinger articulating cranes, including the PK, PW and PC product lines, Palfinger Epsilon forestry and scrap cranes and Palfinger truck-mounted forklifts.

"Based on his extensive engineering background and highly customer-oriented outlook, Tim is the ideal leader to take the core products of Palfinger to the next level,” says Woody, "We look forward to leveraging his experience to offer the best value solutions to our customers."