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Mastrapasqua is Assocold president

ITALY: Epta’s advocacy & regulatory affairs manager Francesco Mastrapasqua has been elected president of Assocold, the Italian refrigeration equipment manufacturers’ association. 

He succeeds Marco Nocivelli, chairman and CEO of Epta, who was named president of ANIMA, Italy’s federation of associations of mechanical and engineering, earlier this month.

Mastrapasqua joined the refrigeration industry in 2000, spending three years as Epta’s European export sales manager before joining Italian chiller manufacturer Blue Box. He rejoined Epta in 2009 as refrigeration systems – sales and marketing manager and was appointed to his current position this month.

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