Cummins has appointed a new chief for its operations in New Zealand, Australia and the South Pacific.
Andrew Penca has been appointed managing director, and general manager of the heavy-duty diesel engine supplier Cummins South Pacific.
Cummins operate close to 40 sales and service facilities in Australia, New Zealand and PNG.
It is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Cummins Inc., the world’s largest independent manufacturer of diesel engines.
Penca joined Cummins in the USA in late 2007 as assistant to the president and chief operating officer, a role in which he led a number of key strategy and operations-related projects.
He then moved to Cummins’ largest heavy-duty on-highway diesel engine production facility, Jamestown Engine Plant (New York), where he became assembly and materials operations director.
In 2011 Penca moved to China to become general manager of Chongqing Cummins Engine Company (CCEC), a joint venture diesel engine manufacturing operation.
Prior to joining Cummins he was Commissioner of Indiana Workforce Development, and before that he worked for Honda R&D America, in advanced product planning and concept development.
Penca will take up his position on July 1 and report to Peter Jensen-Muir, executive managing director – Cummins Asia Pacific.
