CINCINNATI -- OPW Fueling Components, A Dover Co., and a manufacturer of commercial and retail fueling equipment, has announced that longtime OPW executive Jim Walton will retire at the end of the year.
Walton is a 30-year veteran of OPW. For the past four years, Walton has served as vice president of regulatory affairs, preceded by 14 years as vice president and general manager of OPW Environmental Systems.
He began his career with OPW in 1983 as the director of sales and marketing for Dover Corp. (Canada) Ltd./Industrial Division in Toronto.
In his current role, Walton has been responsible for developing and steering the company's regulatory strategies. He represented OPW in interactions with federal and state regulatory agencies and trade associations.
"On behalf of everyone at OPW, I want to thank Jim and recognize him for the positive impact he has had on OPW's success over the past thirty years," said David Crouse, OPW president. "His 30-year tenure within OPW and his wealth of industry experience, regulatory and product development knowledge clearly makes him one of our industry's leading authorities. Under his leadership, our Environmental Systems group experienced solid growth and introduced a broad array of innovative new products".
Walton's 41-year business career began with Union Carbide Canada Ltd., Metals & Carbon Division. Over the course of his career, his positions and responsibilities included national product manager for Westeel-Rosco Ltd.; marketing manager for Enviroglas Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Shell Canada; vice president of sales and marketing for Dover; vice president of OPW Environmental Products and general Mmanager of POMECO Products; president of PISCES by OPW Inc.; vice president of OPW Environmental Systems; and concluding his career at OPW as vice president of regulatory affairs.
Cincinnati-based OPW is a global leader in dispensing products, environmental systems, secondarily contained fuel delivery systems, fuel management systems and clean energy fueling products, including dispensing nozzles for vapor recovery, gasoline, diesel, LPG, hydrogen and CNG; swivels, breakaways, valves and fittings; underground and aboveground storage tank equipment, spill containers, overfill prevention devices, secondary containment sumps and flexible piping; tank gauging equipment and automated fuel management systems. OPW is part of the Dover Energy Segment of Dover Corp.
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