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Rotherham’s Xeros makes two heavyweight commercial appointments

A South Yorkshire-based company delivering revolutionary clothes laundering technology has added executive weight to its commercial operations by making two high-level appointments.

Xeros, the company formed to commercialise groundbreaking polymer bead technology developed at the University of Leeds, has appointed Jocelyn Stuart-Grumbar as international development director and Andy Hewitt as commercial director.

The pair are former long-standing senior employees with leading technology company Dyson and major consumer product group Procter & Gamble respectively.

Mr Stuart-Grumbar was most recently international customer director with Dyson, based in Malmesbury, Wiltshire.

Mr Hewitt was group sales and marketing director with cycling and outdoor goods distributor Zyro, based in Thirsk and Rotherham.

Xeros, located in the Advanced Manufacturing Park, Rotherham, says it is manufacturing and marketing the first genuine innovation in laundering for 60 years.

It produces washing machines in which the use of water is largely replaced by polymer beads, due to their ability to gently agitate stain and soil from textile surfaces easily.

The company says that, compared to conventional washing machines, its products offer superior cleaning and cost savings. They also demand less time and typically more than 70 per cent less water, 50 per cent less energy and 50 per cent less detergent, thus allowing laundering businesses to advance their “green” credentials.

Bill Westwater, chief executive officer, Xeros, said: “We’re delighted to have such experienced, successful and high-level practitioners in their fields on-board.

“The investment required to recruit Jocelyn and Andy indicates our confidence in the benefits our system offers and belief that, as its advantages become more widely known, washing clothes the Xeros way will be commonplace in the years ahead.”

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