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Mastrapasqua re-elected Assocold president

ITALY: Francesco Mastrapasqua, Epta’s institutional affairs manager, has been re-elected president of Assocold, the Italian industrial and commercial refrigeration equipment manufacturers’ association. 

Mastrapasqua will lead the association for the next two years with the support of the two vice-presidents Igor Lauri of Arneg and Mario Penada of Criocabin.

Joining the refrigeration industry in 2000, Mastrapasqua spent 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 has been president of Assocold since 2019.

“The objective of my second mandate is to proceed with the activities that Assocold has carried out in recent years, with particular attention to companies in this delicate historical moment which sees the situation of energy crisis, inflation, price increases and market instability international,” he said.

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