Umeco Components, a division of Umeco plc, the leading international provider of value-added distribution services and composite materials to the aerospace & defence industries, is pleased to announce the following appointments:

Nick Robins, Managing Director, Pattonair Ltd

Nick Robins has been appointed to the position of Managing Director, Pattonair Ltd. He will join from McKechnie, where he was Managing Director of their Linread Northbridge organisation.

Nick's appointment reflects Umeco Components' clear commitment to ensuring that Pattonair continues to develop its capability and reach whilst maintaining the excellent levels of service and performance it provides to its international customer base.

Nick will join Umeco Components on 1 September 2004.

Liliana Diesel, Director & General Manager, Ulogistics North America

Liliana Diesel has been appointed Director and General Manager, Ulogistics North America.

Liliana comes with a wealth of experience, having held senior positions at Nortel, the Canadian telecoms company and at Bombardier Transportation. She will be responsible for the management of the operation's headquarters in Montreal, together with any future satellite facilities, and for the successful development of the important relationship between Umeco Components and Bombardier Aerospace.

Chris Turner, President, Umeco Components

Chris Turner, who has now relocated to our Fort Worth facility,will take up his previously announced position of President Umeco Components on 1 August. All of Umeco Components' North American operations will report directly to Chris.

David Wilkins, Managing Director, Ulogistics Europe

David Wilkins, currently Director and General Manager, has been promoted to Managing Director of Ulogistics Europe.

Jason Crabtree, Chief Executive of Umeco Components, said:

"These appointments further strengthen an extremely strong and committed team that we regard as the best in our industry sector. They work together as one cohesive group towards the achievement of our clearly stated strategy of becoming widely acknowledged as the clear industry leader in our chosen market and service segments."