Guill Tool & Engineering Hires Sales Rep Manager

Guill Tool & Engineering has beefed up its executive team.

The company has hired Thomas D. Baldock as sales representative manager, a plastics industry veteran with more than 30 years of extrusion technology and industrial management experience.

“Thomas Baldock brings invaluable business experience to Guill in our pursuit of the latest extrusion tooling technology for our customers around the globe who demand the most advanced extrusion tooling on the market today,” Guill President Glen Guillemette said. 

Previously, Baldock was a sales manager at Parkinson Technologies, vice president of Extrusion Coating Sales at Polytype Converting, and director of Sales and Marketing for Circonix. He also has held various sales and technical positions with the Black Clawson Company. Baldock received both a business and technical degree from the Rochester Institute of Technology and the State University of New York.

A member of the Society of Plastics Engineering, Baldock also belongs to the Technical Association of the Pulp & Paper Industry. He has published technical articles in various trade magazines and presented papers at key industrial technical conferences.
 
Guill Tool designs and manufactures complete extrusion die assemblies, utilizing the latest CAD/FEA/CFD software, computerized CNC machining and EDM equipment. Guill’s product line includes tips, dies, clamps, flanges, air wipes, forming rolls, swing gates, die stands and carts, breaker plates, special equipment, and sizing dies.

The company designs and manufactures custom extrusion tooling for various applications, including wire, cable, fiber optics, medical tube, wood composites, automotive tube, plastics compounding, custom applications, rubber, profile, industrial pipe, hose and tube, blow molding, plus food and packaging. The company also provides education and training for the extrusion industry with plastic and aluminum model heads, fully illustrated operating manuals for step-by-step assembly and disassembly, training videotapes, as well as classes on the care and cleaning of extrusion tooling.

Founded in Rhode Island in 1962 by A. Roger Guillemette, Guill was established as a job shop that supplied tips, dies, crossheads, and replacement parts to the wire and cable, plastics, and rubber industries in New England.