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Americans choose city as a pivot for European trade


An American firm which uses the most sophisticated communication equiplnent has chosen Peterborough as the pivot between its European customers and manufacturing plants around the world.
Chesterton (UK) Ltd is part of Chesterton International, a specialist engineering group based in Massachusetts.
Its new European Customer Service Centre has been set up in offices in a converted older building on the edge of Peterborough’s Queensgate covered shopping centre.
The new centre will receive orders from all parts of Europe, translate them, and pass them to the Chesterton factories in Holland, Eire and the USA.
Each of its Peterborough staff has mastery of at least one European language - and all but one of them were recruited from the locality.
Chesterton specialises in pumps and sealing de- vices used in the process industries. International Manager Philip Metz said: "Peterborough was chosen because it was the place which best met our criteria of central location, high technology commu- nications capability and the availability of highly educated quality staff."
The Peterborough operation is a return "home" for the company, which was formed 102 years ago by A. W. Chesterton soon after emigrating from the East Midlands town of Loughborough. Chesterton’s business is ...