John "Jack" Ashcom has joined Hoover Materials Handling Group Inc. as manager of the company's Dry Material Handling product line. He will work with Hoover's manufacturer's-representative network to provide sales and technical service to customers. Ashcom has 30 years of experience in sales, marketing and management in the material-handling and capital-equipment industry, and was most recently National Sales manager with Versa Conveyor/Tomkins Industries.