The Process Equipment Manufacturers’ Association (PEMA) Nominating Committee selected Robert Bunting to serve as interim treasurer until March 1, 2024. The board of directors approved the nomination unanimously, and Bunting will fulfill the treasurer role until March 1, 2024. He has been nominated for the position of vice president to be voted upon by all PEMA members on March 1.
Bunting strives to be actively involved in industry associations having served in multiple positions in PEMA. He is the president and chief executive officer of Bunting®, a company that bears his family’s name. Bunting, founded in 1959 by Walter Bunting in Chicago, is one of the world’s leading designers and manufacturers of magnetic separators, metal detectors, materials handling, magnetic printing cylinders, magnets, magnet assemblies, and magnetizing equipment. The company, headquartered in Newton, Kansas, has multiple locations including Bunting-Elk Grove Village; Bunting-DuBois; Bunting-Berkhamsted and Bunting-Redditch in the United Kingdom; and Ningbo, China.
PEMA, formed in 1960, brings together companies that supply equipment and systems that are used by process industries, including but not limited to food, chemical, pharmaceutical, wastewater treatment, paint and coatings, agribusiness, ceramics, metals, plastics, wood, pulp and paper, environmental, building products and mining/minerals.