ProMach, a manufacturer of packaging machinery solutions, names Bret Ranc Chief Operating Officer

Reporting to Mark Anderson, President and CEO of ProMach, Ranc will lead the company’s business operations for long-term organic growth, ensuring all ProMach product brands work together to achieve the company’s business goals. Reporting to Ranc will be each of the company’s business units as well as the ProMach Business Process function.

“I am proud and excited to promote Bret Ranc as our COO,” said. Anderson. “He has been instrumental in ProMach’s growth since joining us almost a decade ago and is a textbook example of how we like to develop and grow talent internally within the ProMach organization. He has held increasing leadership roles within ProMach and has driven his groups to strong growth, while developing an excellent leadership team to support it. Bret truly understands our culture and methods that have made ProMach successful and he will excel at helping ProMach’s over thirty product brands scale and grow as we continue to expand and evolve. His direction, leadership, and poise make him an indispensable business partner and Bret and I will operate very closely to accomplish our goals of organic growth, acquisition integration, and continuous improvement to keep ProMach at the forefront of the packaging industry for years to come.”

Ranc has served ProMach in various roles, most recently as President of ProMach’s Secondary Packaging Business Unit, and prior to that as Senior Vice President of ProMach’s Material Handling Group. He joined ProMach in 2011 with the acquisition of Shuttleworth, where he held various operations and sales leadership roles, and was promoted to Vice President and General Manager of Shuttleworth shortly following the acquisition.

Ranc earned his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Purdue University, his M.B.A. from Indiana University, and is currently the Chairperson for the Industry Relations Committee for PMMI, the Association for Packaging and Processing Technologies.

“We have an outstanding management team, and I’m excited to work with them to continue driving Mark’s vision of delivering complete packaging line solutions to our customers across the globe and to ensure ProMach continues building and expanding its strong industry leadership position,” said Ranc.

Ryan McCart, formerly ProMach’s Senior Vice President of End of Line, will step in as President of ProMach’s Secondary Packaging Business Unit, backfilling the role vacated by. Ranc.