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Professional Plating Promotes Engineering, Quality Manager

Bob Zipperer’s leadership has led Professional Plating’s quality to steadily improve year over year, and his mentoring and leadership of the sales and estimating team benefits both the company and its customers.

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Professional Plating Inc. (Brillion, Wis.) has promoted Bob Zipperer to the role of engineering and quality manager.

Since joining Professional Plating in March of 1992 as an acrylic production technician, Zipperer has progressed through various roles; he received a total of four promotions from 1993 to 1998.

Zipperer led the company’s powder area from 2010 until 2014, when he became Professional Plating's first engineering coordinator. In 2019, he took on the dual role of engineering and quality coordinator.

According to the company, Zipperer’s leadership has led Professional Plating’s quality to steadily improve year over year, and Zipperer’s mentoring and leadership of the sales and estimating team benefits both the company and its customers.

Zipperer hopes to continue to improve and automate Professional Plating’s processes.

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