Pune, July 3, 2013: Atlas Copco has recently appointed Ignace Cappuyns as General Manager of the company's Compressor Technique customer centre in India.

Mr Cappuyns holds a master's degree in electro-mechanical engineering from KU Leuven, Belgium. Ignace joined Atlas Copco as a product engineer in 1989 at Antwerp, Belgium. In 1999 he moved to France and held the position of general manager. After several successful years as the general manager in France, Greece and Australia, he moved to Antwerp and was promoted to vice president marketing - Oil-free Air Division in 2007 and then business development manager for Oil-free Air Division in 2010.

"We are delighted to have Ignace join us to lead Compressor Technique customer centre in India. Ignace is a seasoned professional with a proven track record of success. His enormous experience and customer focus will steer the business towards continued growth," commented Peter Wagner, President, Gas and Process Division.

Ignace comments, "I am looking forward to working with the people in India and developing the company. The potential in India is large. Our challenge will be to realize it. I feel we have good possibilities to develop. It will be matter of integrating the Atlas Copco way of doing business with the realities of the Indian market. On a personal level I look forward to discovering exotic India with my wife and children."

Atlas Copco is an industrial group with world-leading positions in compressors, expanders and air treatment systems, construction and mining equipment, power tools and assembly systems. With innovative products and services, Atlas Copco delivers solutions for sustainable productivity. The company was founded in 1873, is based in Stockholm, Sweden, and has a global reach spanning more than 170 countries.