Meet the Trainers
Vulcanized and Mechanical Heavyweight Splice Training
Mike Hesslau
Territory Sales Manager
Flexco
Michael Hesslau has been with Flexco for 24 years. He spent nine years in Flexco’s Customer Service/Inside Sales. Then moved to the marketing department creating, writing, filming & editing Flexco training videos and as a lead instructor in Flexco’s BCP training classes.
The next eight years were spent in North America (western United States & Canada) & Asia (China, India, South East Asia) working with colleagues, distributors, and end-users performing training, troubleshooting, installation, and sales. The last five years have been spent as Territory Sales Manager for Flexco in Northern Illinois, Southern/Eastern Wisconsin, and Eastern Iowa.
Brad Bundy
Territory Sales Manager - Mountain West
Shaw Almex Industries
Brad Bundy started his belting career in 2007 with a leading global conveyor belt manufacturer and is now with the Almex Group as a territory manager and supports the splice/ technical training department. He began as a field vulcanizer he has since held positions as a technical trainer, application specialist, project manager for Heavyweight belt construction and change-outs, and operational manager for two service branches in the western United States. He has performed Heavyweight belt service from 2 miles below an ocean to more than 2 miles above sea level, on belts conveying everything from prescription medication to precious metals.
Brad has conducted splice training classes in multiple countries for thousands of students and believes he is as much a student as an instructor in this industry. Brad has written and revised new and worn belt splicing and repair procedures, created industry-related tooling and his hands-on approach focuses on Safety, Quality, and Efficiency in that order.
Gary Dech
Global Technical Sales Manager
The Almex Group
Gary Dech began working in the conveyor belting business over 35 years ago and brings firsthand knowledge of splicing, sales and application engineering in both heavyweight and lightweight belting as well as peripheral equipment such as pulleys, idlers and belt cleaning components.
As the Global Technical Sales Manager for The Almex Group Gary has facilitated and led multi-day conveyor belt splice training classes on three continents and brings experience, humor and a lighthearted attitude to any training or technical seminar.