Alan has over 30 years of experience with Extract, initially joining the company in 1985 as a Mechanical Engineer. A steady progression of personal development resulted in an appointment to management of the company’s expanding Technical Assembly Department in 1991.This role encompassed all aspects of fitting, testing, installation and commissioning activities relating to the company’s products.
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Alan Wainwright
Managing Director, Extract Technology
As the company changed ownership in 2000, Alan was asked to lead the management of the product group for Downflow booths, overseeing, internal sales, mechanical and controls design, project management, compliance, and commercial activities. This in depth business working knowledge, product knowledge and experience, enabled Alan to progress into a role of General Manager in 2003 this later translated into the Managing Director , adopting a hands on approach to business needs.

Alan currently heads a strong Management team at Extract and is closely involved in ensuring business and customer expectations are met and that the company continues to grow and develop.
Prior to joining Extract Alan served a full apprenticeship in mechanical engineering. Over the years Alan has gained various academic qualifications to support his roles, including Business coaching and manufacturing excellence.
Jason Armitage
Financial Director
Jason commenced his employment at a firm of Chartered Accountants in 1988 and worked there for ten years, predominantly in the role of Audit Manager. It was in this role that he gained a varied knowledge and grounding of the accountancy profession, developing key skills in Management Information System review; design and implementation. In 1998 Jason was recruited by a local manufacturing Company; which was owned by a Hong Kong trading Company; in the role of Financial Controller.
He was employed directly after the acquisition of a UK competitor and his primary function was to manage the financial integration of the two Companies. In his first year of employment with the Company he managed the implementation of a new Management Information system which allowed significant growth in the following year, 1999. In September 2003 he was appointed Finance Director after gaining five years experience with the Company and extensive knowledge of the industry.

In February 2006 Jason was employed by Extract Technology Ltd (Carlisle Process Systems Ltd) and managed the decentralisation of the Finance, HR and IT functions of the Company.
Throughout 2006 he recruited a new Team working at the site in Huddersfield and by August 2006 the Company was again a stand alone organisation. As part of the decentralisation process Jason managed the implementation of a new Management Information System throughout the Company. The focus of the implementation was to reduce a number of non value adding functions and the automation of a number of manual business processes. In 2007 Jason was appointed Chief Financial Officer, managing the Company’s strategic finance.
Jason has gained many qualifications over the past twenty years and is now a Fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants.
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