Mettler-Toledo International Inc Appoints Brian Shepherd to its Board of Directors
June 26, 2024 at 04:15 pm EDT
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Mettler-Toledo International Inc. announced that Brian Shepherd has been appointed to its Board of Directors. Mr. Shepherd most recently served as the Senior Vice President, Software and Control, of Rockwell Automation Inc. from February 2021 through June 2024. Prior to this role, he was Division President, Production Software and Smart Factory, for Hexagon from 2017 to 2020.
Mr. Shepherd previously held a variety of senior leadership roles at PTC Inc. over the course of his twenty-year tenure with the company, including as Executive Vice President and General Manager, Enterprise Segments, and Executive Vice President, Product Development.
Mettler-Toledo International, Inc. specializes in the design, manufacturing and marketing of precision instruments. Net sales break down by sector of activity as follows:
- research and development in laboratories (55.6%): weighing solutions (analytical balances, precision balances, microbalances, mass comparators, etc.), pipetting systems, analytical instruments (thermal analysis instruments, titrators, pH meters, densimeters, refractometers and spectrophotometers), automated reactors, etc. ;
- industries (39.3%): industrial scales, analysis systems, industrial inspection and control systems. The group also offers software solutions for weighing, measuring and identification, as well as solutions to monitor and control production processes;
- distribution of food products (6.1%): weighing solutions (weight / price scales, counter balances, cash balances, etc.), packaging, pricing, packaging and labeling.
Net sales by source of revenue break down between product sales (76.7%) and services (23.3%).
At the end of 2023, the group had 30 production sites worldwide.
Net sales are distributed geographically as follows: the United States (35.5%), the Americas (5.9%), Germany (5.8%), France (3.7%), Switzerland (2.4%), the United Kingdom (2.1%), Europe (12.8%), China (18.7%) and other (13.1%).