RocTool looks to grow in North America

Photo by RocTool SA RocTool SA has a new CEO and is accelerating development plans for North America.

Electronics moulding giant Flextronics International, which acquired 14.6% of RocTool SA, the French manufacturer of induction systems to rapidly heat and cool moulds down with water last year, has now filled a post on RocTool’s board of directors.

The board spot is held by Francois Barbier, Flextronics Group vice president of global operations and components. Barbier joined the RocTool board on 4 November. He replaced Stephane Hersen, who left Roctool on 30 November 2015.

RocTool also announced that Mathieu Boulanger is the new CEO of RocTool. Boulanger is a 10-year RocTool veteran of leading business development, and for the last two years has been president of Roctool Inc. in the United States.

The company is accelerating its developments in North America, based in Charlotte, North Carolina. RocTool’s Charlotte facility is becoming one of the company’s key technical centres for demonstrations and trials for injection moulding, and soon for compression moulding as well.

RocTool is based in Le Bourget du Lac, France.