West Midlands based Linvic Engineering Limited which supplies flanges, pipe-fittings, fasteners and forgings for the worldwide oil & gas, petrochemical and power generation industries, has appointed Peter Westwood as Managing Director.

Peter joined the company at the end of June 2010 following an announcement by Linvic’s long-standing Managing Director, Alan Smith, that from October this year he would step down.  Alan will continue to provide support to Accura on a part-time basis.

Westwood was previously a director of E.ON Energy Services and managing director of E.ON Technical Services, responsible for establishing E.ON's central heating and insulation business in the UK.  He developed E.ON UK's retail strategy which called for expansion into new business areas, the first of which was central heating, the business he then formed.  Prior to that, Peter spent ten years in the upstream oil and gas industry holding commercial and strategic roles.

In his new position Peter will be responsible for ensuring a strong focus on client and supplier relationships and accelerating growth for Linvic in the UK and worldwide markets.

Linvic is part of the Midlands based Accura Group of companies supplying business critical components to large OEMs particularly in the Aerospace, Petrochemical, Marine Diesel Engine and F1 market sectors.  This appointment comes at an important time for the Accura Group as a whole with the economic recovery presenting substantial opportunities.

All Accura Group companies, i.e. Linvic, Concept, Geometric and Geneva have consolidated their market position with particular emphasis on quality, on-time-delivery and client relationship management and are looking forward to driving further growth for the Group.  Peter’s appointment, together with other changes across the Group, reinforces the development and growth strategy of the business, enabling Accura to better meet the needs of customers.  For further information, visit www.accura.co.uk.