Design Engineer Gary Crook Rejoins UpRight

Gary Crook

March 27, 2007 • Gary Crook, a design engineer responsible for some of UpRight's most innovative and successful products, has returned to the company as senior design engineer after leaving to work for JLG in 2004.

 

Crook will be responsible for creating and developing an UpRight Center of Design Excellence in the United States. He will recruit and build his own team while working closely with the design engineers already based at the Vigo Centre, UpRight's European headquarters in the United Kingdom.

 

Darren Kell, chief executive of UpRight, said: “Appointing Gary Crook is a significant step forward in strengthening our design engineering capabilities. Not only is Gary one of the best design engineers in the industry, but he also has a huge tacit knowledge base and level of expertise in the entire UpRight product portfolio.” Kell added that Crook and his team will accelerate UpRight's program to produce a full line of boom and scissor lifts by launching new products and re-introducing UpRight machines that were previously discontinued.

 

Crook originally joined Upright in July 1995, and his first job was to design the AB46 self-propelled boom. He spent a highly successful nine years with UpRight, playing a key role in the birth of the SB80 boom lift and the X26 ultra-narrow scissor, among others.

 

"My focus is to build a highly talented engineering team, based in the U.S., which can support the increasing production of existing machines and successfully re-introduce many other models,” Crook said. "Our mantra will be ‘Keep it Simple' by only using technologies appropriate to our customers' capabilities.”