Staff

Simon Ewles
Director of Sales

Simon has been with Fiberweb Geosynthetics Ltd since 1999 and has held various posts including Export Manager and Sales Director which included the Acorn Planting Products business. Since the acquisition of Tubex, Simon has led the integration of the business and has a vast knowledge of the tree planting industry.

Tim Oliver
UK Sales Manager

Tim has a strong background in horticulture and has been working in tree shelter sales since 2002 with both Tubex and Acorn Planting products. With the merging of the Tubex and Acorn brands since the acquisition of Tubex Ltd by Fiberweb, Tim will be responsible for integrating the brands, delivering sales growth and improving customer service.

Irina Perry
Export Sales Executive

Irina joined Tubex in 2009 focusing on sales to our new and developing markets. A highly trained and qualified translator and interpreter, Irina is fluent in English, Romanian, Italian and French, and has a wide range of experience having worked within both public and private sector organisations.

Catherine Fyfe
Product Manager

Graduated from Cardiff University with a 2:1 in Business Management with Spanish. Catherine was recruited to assist with Marketing, and more recently led the Customer Service dept. Her Product Manager role will assist in the development of new products, innovations and ideas and bringing them to market.

Carly Crumlish
Customer Service Team Leader

Carly has extensive experience in dealing with the tree planting industry. Her team will continue to support customers with product support, deliveries and order processing functions.

Lindsay Mycroft
Customer Service Assistant

Lindsay has joined Tubex to strengthen the customer service team since the integration of the Acorn business. She has previously worked in similar markets as a sales team leader and is highly customer focused.

Gwyn Everett
Transport Manager

Gwyn finds it easy to relate to many of our customers, having first worked for a South Wales forestry contract company – principally felling and planting. Joining Tubex in 1991, he was employed in the warehouse before rising to Transport Manager, co-ordinating deliveries and shipments of goods to all customers – both National and International. Outside of work Gwyn is accomplished in several martial arts, but stresses avoidance as the best way of dealing with violence.

Craig Owen
Production Schedule Co-ordinator

With a business degree and nearly 15 years experience in production process planning, Craig assess forward orders, balanced against stock holding and maximising efficiencies on our 8 extrusion lines. Craig was known for his luxuriant locks before joining Tubex 2 years ago, but with nearly 100 SKU’s (stock keeping units) to play with he’s now looking a little ‘follically challenged’ – fortunately, playing cricket for his local village provides some respite.

Johnny Phillips
Warehouse Supervisor

A familiar face about Tubex for the past 13 years, Johnny has worked on the production lines and in the stores, but now acts as Supervisor for goods inwards and loads outwards. A local lad and typically jovial character, Johnny aspires to ensure speedy and accurate loading of lorries in peak season. A keen family man, Johnny spends much of his spare time playing football and keeping fit.

Geraint Griffiths
Technical and Quality Manager

Geraint had over 8 years experience in Mechanical and Production engineering before joining Tubex in 1996 as a Production Engineer. Now Technical and Quality Manager his role is to ensure that the production facility at Tubex runs as effectively and efficiently as possible – a task that requires constant attention and refinement, particularly as new products such as Combitube come ‘on-stream’. Geraint's spare time is taken up with his family and coaching Rugby Union to future Welsh Internationals.

Dr Bhukan Parbhoo
Research and Development Manager

Bhukan joined Tubex in 2005 after 37 years working as a research chemist, with experience in academia and industry. As R&D manager his principle role is to develop the next generation of tree and vine shelter products. He also plays an important part in Tubex' efforts to refine existing manufacturing processes. With his keen interest in nature, Bhukan is also studying Botany to assist in his research.

Mike Williams
Quality Management

Mike Williams joined Tubex at the start of 2010 having previously worked at Rockwool Ltd.,Bridgend. Mike has taken on the task of upgrading the Quality Management System at Tubex from ISO9001-2000 to ISO9001-2008. Tubex has a good sound Quality Management System, but as with all QMS it needs to be upgraded to enhance improvements.