Dominic Oates

Trent Refractories are a UK based manufacturer and supplier of bespoke refractory solutions, supplying the UK market and beyond. Our reputation for competitively priced high quality products is known throughout the industry, and our ability to offer quick turn-around times that can be tailored to our customers’ demands sets us apart from the rest. In this role I have been tasked with with developing new business in the UK and European area. I will be looking at expanding Trent's customer base for its current product offering either directly or through distributors, I will also work on bringing on board new products and suppliers to increase the overall offering.

Alkegen is a specialty materials leader serving mission-critical systems that the world is focused on for the future, including: battery technologies, electric vehicles, filtration media, and specialty refractory and insulation materials that enable customers to reduce fossil fuel consumption, save energy, and live greener. I was responsible for the UK, Ireland and Nordic Countries selling refractory and insulation products into Industrial markets such as Ferrous and None Ferrous metals, Petrochemical, Waste to Energy and Plastic Injection Moulding. As a company we are supplying the latest materials including high temperature resistant ceramic fibres, Low Bio Persistent fibre, Vacuum formed shapes , chemically and cement bonded concretes and high abrasion resistance metal delivery systems. Reached or exceeded my target for 3 out of 4 years, including 2025.

Asmet is a global supplier of foundry, metallurgical, refractory and abrasive raw materials. Established over 30 years ago, they serve many customers in over 30 countries. I was initially employed to serve the Iron Foundry market in France, this role developed into a pan European role developing new markets, such as; Steel Plants, Refractory, Abrasive and Recycling of Waste Materials. I started with zero accounts and during my time developed business / new accounts to annual revenues of around £2m.

Illinois Tool Works is a global industrial company built around a differentiated and proprietary business model. The company's seven industry-leading segments leverage the ITW Business Model to generate solid growth with best-in-class margins and returns. In this role I had full P&L responsibility for a manufacturing plant employing 80-120 people at any given time. As well as managing the operation I had a sales team of five covering North and West China. I started the plant from scratch and grew it to annual revenues of 10-12m USD during my tenure. The main activities of the plant were supplying die cut parts into the mobile phone and electronics segment serving OEMs such as Nokia and Motorola and second tier suppliers such as Foxconn, Perlos, Jabil and Nypro.

Stokvis Tapes brings unique focus to the specific markets they serve as a converter, contract manufacturer and global logistics partner for adhesive and flexible materials. During this role I was tasked with setting up from scratch and running a state of the art, clean room environment new manufacturing plant in the Shenzhen area. The main activities were die cutting of self adhesive components for use in mobile phones. I managed a team of 50-80 including Finance, HR and Operations.

Fiege Logistik are innovation leaders in logistics. With modular concepts within Logistics, Digital Services, Real Estate and Ventures, they optimise the value chains of customers operating on a cross-sector scale world-wide.