Roger Jones, corporate president, Solar Atmospheres is pleased to announce the promotion of Ed Engelhard as the vice president of corporate quality. Engelhard has been with the company for over three years serving as corporate quality manager in that time. In his new role, Engelhard will oversee the long range planning and support of quality functions at the company’s four heat treat and brazing facilities. His responsibilities include the direction and management of corporate resources to plan various quality endeavors, provide technical support to site quality managers, and coordinate strategic initiatives among the various facilities and departments in order to facilitate compliance to quality requirements and continual improvement in process quality and customer performance metrics. He is an active participant in Nadcap, MedAccred and various industry technical committees.