Parker Bioscience Filtration
announces appointment of new
market development manager
for Food and Beverage
Parker Bioscience Filtration has announced knowledge, which has been built up over
the appointment of a new market more than 23 years. His experience of
development manager to oversee its Food working with companies across three
and Beverage operations. continents has given him a unique insight into
operational best practice.
Ian Curran – who has worked at Parker
Bioscience Filtration (formerly Parker “He has an extensive knowledge of the needs
domnick hunter) for more than two of our customers, from breweries to dairy
decades – has moved to the role from his plants, and I am therefore delighted that he
previous position as business development will now be spearheading the delivery of
manager. Parker Bioscience Filtration’s strategy in the
food and beverage sector.”
Parker Bioscience is part of Parker
Hannifin, the world’s leading diversified Parker Bioscience Filtration helps
manufacturer of motion and control manufacturers in the dairy industry reach
technologies and systems, and has distant customers by increasing the shelf-
operations in Oxnard, California and Birtley,
UK.
Parker Bioscience Filtration has five
decades of experience in working with
the international food and beverage
sector and offers a wide range of filtration
solutions. It has specialist expertise in the
dairy, brewing, bottled water and wine
Ian’s previous positions have seen him
build up an extensive knowledge of
international food and beverage processing
operations and he has engaged with
clients across Europe and the Middle
East, working alongside multinational
companies to address their filtration
challenges.
industries, and supports companies in Commenting on his new position, Ian Curran
improving process control, efficiency and said: “With a range of new product launches
security throughout their production and in the dairy and brewing industries coming
packaging processes. on stream this year, it’s an exciting time to
Ian, who is based at Parker Bioscience
Filtration’s Birtley site, will be responsible
be taking up this role at Parker Bioscience
Filtration.
life of their products and supports them
in reducing overall product waste resulting
from bacterial contamination.
It offers a range of sterile gas filters for all
stages of the production and packaging
process and provides solutions which are
used in aseptic packaging, dairy tank vent
filtration, dairy product purge operations
and sanitary separations.
Parker Bioscience Filtration has also
developed cutting-edge technology for use
in sterile filtration in the brewing industry
and recently announced the formation of a
partnership with Belgium-based company
Agidens Process Automation.
for overseeing Parker Bioscience’s “I’m looking forward to supporting the growth food and beverage strategy and driving of our services to the food and beverage its growth in the dairy, brewing, wine industry and helping to shape solutions which and bottled water sectors, as well as will have a major impact for operators in implementing product launches and the dairy, brewing, bottled water and wine developing new partnerships. sectors.” He started his career with Parker Hannifin Kris Holmes, business unit manager at as distribution sales manager in 1995 Parker Hannifin, added: “Ian has a wealth of before being promoted to business expertise in serving the food and beverage For more information, visit
development manager in 2007. industries, and a deep level of product www.parker.com/bioscience
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This has enabled the global brewing
industry to access systems which
integrate Parker Bioscience Filtration’s
microfiltration solutions with Agidens’
automated processing technology.