Having spent the first part of his career as a specialist applications engineer working on seal design, Walklate then spent several years as an external based customer-facing sales engineer specialising in seal projects in the defence market.

Andy Cleaver, managing director, said: “Ed is an important addition to both our management team and the engineering department here at Ceetak. Following on from the accreditation of our A9120B Aerospace approval in June, we are confident his abundance of technical knowledge and market experience will be a real asset to our project development within the aerospace & defence markets going forward.”