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EuroWire – July 2007 14
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
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
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Stephan Tanda ▲
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
Email:
Website:
Lifting Solutions, UK, has completed a
major contract for the 15th 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:
Website :
lLifting Solutions completes its largest ever steel
lrope order
Lifting Solutions provided steel wire rope for the opening ceremony at the Doha Games ▲
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.