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Team
Our Team
As one team, we partner with our customers to succeed together. We are a group of innovative thinkers who thrive on empowering our customers with game-changing castings and materials solutions.
Scott Davis
Managing Director
With a wealth of first-hand foundry industry knowledge harnessed over 30 years, Scott Davis represents the 3rd generation of highly successful casting and engineering material business owners. A visionary man with a rigorous eye for opportunity, Scott isn’t just building on the foundations of his forefathers, he’s forging a new future entirely. Through exceptional standards in performance, infrastructure and service quality, Scott’s expertise in both casting and materials has helped to push Kormax to an industry leading position. But Scott’s not just passionate about industry, he’s a people person too which is evident in the successful team he leads.
Walter Davis
Sales Director Â
With extensive experience from the ground up, being the fourth generation of the Milson Group founder, Walter’s welded abilities have co-steered the Kormax’s presence into Australia and USA. As our Sales Director, Walter has a decisive hand in identifying and delivering value with a deep understanding of customer needs. To ensure outstanding global standards and world-class solutions, Walter, with his passionate drive, facilitates collaboration between clients and our innovative engineering team. From the first point of contact to the entire customer journey, Walter ensures exceptional service at every single stage.
Abrie van Aarde
Global Product Development EngineerÂ
A metallurgical engineer with a proven 20-year track record of manufacturing experience, Abrie plays a fundamental role in gatekeeping product delivery at the highest levels of expectation. During his international career, Abrie has been involved in a very wide range of designing, manufacturing, quality control, and research and development functions. These key skills, combined with his in depth understanding and knowledge of materials, their mechanical properties, and abilities are vital in his role as our Product Development Engineer. Abrie is instrumental in analysing crucial processes to maximize efficiency and identifying the necessary quality controls and parameters at every stage of our customers’ projects. With a passion for meeting new people and using challenges as catalysts for development and learning, Abrie is a valuable asset to ensure innovative and reliable solutions for Kormax and our clients.
Josh Currie
Business Development Manager (NZ/International)Â
With over 25 years of foundry experience, aiding Milsons Metals’ evolution into the Kormax brand, Josh’s close knowledge of both materials and casting has taught him one thing – if you want consistency, you have to oversee the details. Josh is a man of his word and will not compromise on quality whilst ensuring you receive excellent service for all time-critical projects. As our project lead, Josh was instrumental in Kormax achieving ISO certification in Quality (ISO 9001), Health and Safety (ISO 45001), and Environmental (ISO 14001). Quality assurance is synonymous with Kormax, and Josh is an example of how that extends to our Teams too.
Hamish Patterson
Business Development Manager (NZ/AU)Â
Hamish is here to support customers directly. From helping customers with engineering materials and casting requirements to directing enquiries and assessing job demands, Hamish incorporates a measured and personable approach to business development. With a foundational understanding of business systems and entrenched industry knowledge, combined with a natural touch of personality, he makes sure customers have everything they need, exactly when they need it. It’s not just Hamish’s ability to exceed expectations and connect with customers that impresses us, it is the relationships and business knowledge he’s honed on the way. Hamish’s passion for excellence ensures Kormax provides customers with quality products to enable their engineering victories.
Matt McNaughton Â
Business Development Manager (AU)
Matt is a 4th generation machinist and qualified fitter and turner, with extensive heavy machining experience which includes Bronze and Aluminium. Matt brings valuable insights to our team with his 22 years of experience in all aspects of engineering from the shop floor, estimating, Being passionate about the fast-paced energy of interacting with customers to deliver on their needs, Matt is always sharing his experience to help our customers succeed.
Derek Sands
Sales Engineer
Where there’s complexity, you need someone who makes things simple.  With 23 years of experience, Derek utilises his fluid and practical skillsets to overcome specialist project challenges. From a career in working with metal alloys, casting processes and expert knowledge on best manufacturing methods, our Sales Engineer helps customers with the more complex projects. How? With a proven record of extensive knowledge on expanding industries, Dereks employs a creative insight that others may struggle to. Derek consistently uses foresight to get ahead of the market, customer needs, and understand what’s possible from a supply and manufacturing point of view. The outcome? Kormax and our customers stay ahead, every single day.
Soner Özden Ertürk
Quality and Design Engineer
A metallurgical engineer with PhD degree and 15 years’ experience, Soner has vast experience in project management, process engineering, casting design-simulation, and auditing quality Soner brings extensive experience in multiple industries, from automotive parts to large scale steel castings. With Soner’s valuable skills, Kormax continues to leverage advanced computer simulations to assist our customers in ensuring a quality cast product. Soner’s extensive experience with simulation technology means we can offer our customers comprehensive assessment of factors such as mould filling, solidification, cooling rates, and potential defects, enabling proactive adjustments and optimisations before physical production takes place. With his passion for process and quality engineering, Soner perfectly augments the Kormax Development and Quality team’s design for manufacturing services. Regarded as an opinion leader in his field, Soner is an author in quality management and casting processes, making him an asset to Kormax and our customers.
Sushil Kumar
Quality Manager
As our Quality Manager, Sushil ensures that Kormax consistently delivers exceptional products and services to our worldwide customers. With a passion for excellence and a sharp attention to detail, Combining his B Tech Degree in Manufacturing Engineering, with 12 years’ experience, Sushil has a profound understanding of casting manufacturing methods and processes. His extensive knowledge of quality management and dedication to continuous improvement means that Kormax and our customers can be assured that they will receive the highest quality products every time.
Reuben Atkinson
Quality Manager (NZ/International)
Through looking out for defects and inconsistencies in metal casting processes, Reuben possesses a pivotal eye for quality. With over 20 years’ experience in the foundry and metal casting industry, But it’s not just about spotting errors, it’s about preventing them too. Reuben guides his expertise towards innovative process adjustments, improving casting designs and streamlining projects for customers. It’s simple – Reuben identifies a problem for a customer and solves it. So, when it comes to Kormax, we are proud that Reuben is a part of our ever-growing list of world-class solutions.
Scott Lammers
Casting Consultant
Scott is a highly accomplished casting consultant who enriches the Kormax team with a wealth of American market industry expertise spanning three decades. With a strong emphasis on casting design Scott’s primary focus is to deliver exceptional service to our North American based customers. Through his involvement in new product development, defect analysis, streamlining manufacturing processes, and overseeing quality control management, he enables our customers to confidently address their unique application requirements across various industries. Scott’s profound understanding of a diverse range of materials, including brass, bronze, aluminium, steel and cast-iron metallurgy, guarantees that our customers’ various application needs, and industry-specific requirements are met with utmost precision and efficiency.
Dave Brooks
Supply Chain Manager
At Kormax, we recognise the significance of a well-optimised and streamlined supply chain as the backbone of our operations. With 25 years’ experience, and an extensive knowledge of Dave is perfectly positioned to guide us towards a future of continued supply chain excellence. Drawing on his strong analytical skills and process driven approach we are looking forward to achieving all-encompassing systems, optimised landing prices and effective stock covering, with Dave at the forefront of the operations. Having completed a B.TECH Bachelor’s in Technology, majoring in manufacturing and industrial technology, Dave brings a wealth of knowledge that is sure to benefit both Kormax and our customers. Previously Dave has managed the supply planning function across 6 New Zealand factories for a large FMCG manufacturer. He also has proven success in implementing new planning tools for the purpose of production planning and network efficiency, facilitating the optimisation of fill rates and inventory reduction. His ability to blend data-driven insights with creative problem-solving approaches is pivotal in overcoming complex challenges, enhancing operational efficiency, and helping us in our pursuit of continuous improvement.
Phil Mestyanek
Commercial and Finance Manager
With 14 years of experience in Corporate Finance and Business Management, Phil brings a wealth of knowledge and expertise to Kormax. As an experienced strategist Through his Bachelor’s Degree in Accountancy, as well as a multitude of involvement facilitating both financial and commercial activities, Phil has expertly refined his skills in budgeting, forecasting, cost optimisation, working capital management and capital investment. His natural inclination to build relationships through networking and his collaborative working style embodies the Kormax corporate values and filters right through to how we work as a team to service our customers.
Brenda Wormgoor 
Marketing and Brand Manager
Brenda’s invaluable marketing expertise has been honed through 25 years in various marketing roles within both global corporates and leading locally owned businesses. Her main mantra? Brenda believes that marketing success is only achieved when one truly delivers on customer needs and build partnering relationships with customers. As Kormax’s Marketing Manager, Brenda is passionate about the irreplaceable expertise and inherent knowledge that exists within Kormax, and finding innovative ways to employ them into the service offering to our customers. The reward? The success of Kormax’s customers. She loves telling brand stories and highlighting our customers’ engineering feats, too.