EoW July 2007

english corporate news

New appointment to DSM board The General Meeting of Shareholders of DSM, Netherlands, has appointed Mr Stephan B Tanda as a member of the company’s managing board. Mr Tanda studied mechanical and plastics engineering at the University of Leoben, Austria, and business administration at the Wharton Business School of the University of Pennsylvania, USA, and started his career in 1991 with DuPont in Switzerland. In 2000 he became president of Protein Technologies International, Inc, and later president and CEO of The Solae Company, USA, a joint venture between DuPont and Bunge in the area of Lawsuit settled Reelex Packaging Solutions, Inc (formerly Windings Inc), USA, has announced that it has settled its lawsuit against Commodity Cables Inc. Reelex had sued the company over the unauthorised use of its Reelex™ trademark. In the settlement, Commodity Cables acknowledged that it had violated Reelex’s trademark rights, and agreed to pay Reelex for all attorneys fees and costs as well as unspecified additional monetary damages. Commodity also agreed to destroy any inventory containing the trademark, cease unauthorised use of the trademark, and identify the Chinese manufacturer who supplied Commodity with the counterfeit packaging. Tom Copp, president of Reelex, said: “We are pleased to have reached an expedient and amicable resolution to our lawsuit. We feel it is important to take these actions when necessary to protect the interests of our authorised licensees and to help stem the importation of counterfeit, inferior coils that compete unfairly with the genuine Reelex coils produced by our licensees.” Reelex Packaging Solutions Inc – USA Fax : +1 845 878 7884 Tin production down Indonesian production of tin has reduced sharply since last October because of efforts to regulate small-scale mining and smelter operations. Production this year will be 90,000 tons, down from more than 125,000 tons in 2006. Email : sales@reelex.com Website : www.reelex.com

food innovation and food ingredient manufacturing. Since 2004, Mr Tanda has been president and CEO of Freudenberg Nonwovens, Germany and USA. DSM is active worldwide in nutritional and pharma ingredients, performance materials and industrial chemicals. The company’s products are used in a wide range of end markets and applications such as human and animal nutrition and health, cosmetics, pharmaceuticals, automotive and transport, coatings, housing, electrics and electronics.

DSM – Netherlands Fax : +31 45 571 9753 Email : info@dsm.com Website : www.dsm.com Stephan Tanda ▲

Lifting Solutions provided steel wire rope for the opening ceremony at the Doha Games ▲

l Lifting Solutions completes its largest ever steel l rope order

Lifting Solutions, UK, has completed a major contract for the 15 th Asian Games in Doha, held recently in the Gulf state of Qatar. The company was the main lifting equipment supplier to Stage One, the main contractor on this aspect of the project, and supplied 65km of dry finish (unlubricated) steel wire rope, with diameters ranging from 5mm to 18mm, plus associated rigging. The steel wire rope supplied by Lifting Solutions enabled Stage One, who had been commissioned to supply all of the aerial engineering and associated automation for the opening and closing ceremonies, to overcome one of its greatest technical challenges. Mr David Nixon of Lifting Solutions, who worked on the order for several months, said, “This is without doubt our biggest ever single order of wire rope, and we’re

over the moon that we have been able to supply another major international games.” Lifting Solutions had previously been involved in the opening and closing ceremonies for the Athens 2004 Olympic Games, again as the main supplier of lifting equipment, and also assisted Stage One with specialist provision of lifting equipment for both the Melbourne 2006 Commonwealth Games and the 2006 Turin Winter Olympics. The company also created a supporting structure of steel wire rope to hold up what is believed to be Europe’s largest ever banner, for the IOC London 2012 Evaluation Committee visit to London last February.

Lifting Solutions – UK Fax : +44 1709 899 011

Email : sales@lifting-solutions.co.uk Website : www.lifting-solutions.co.uk

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EuroWire – July 2007