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EuroWire – July 2007 25
english corporate news
Major order for
compounding lines
Around a year after regaining independence, Buss AG,
Switzerland, has booked its largest ever order. Worth
more than €10m in total, the scope of supply covers seven
complete lines for high-grade cable compounds.
Decisive for the customer – a multi-national cable
manufacturer – was the combined Buss quantec® and
MKS kneader technology, particularly well proven for
cable compounds that are critically sensitive to heat and
shear force, as well as the market knowledge of Buss in
this sector.
Despite the exceptionally large order volume, all seven
compounding lines will be delivered during the course of
this year and commissioned in turn by March 2008.
The new Buss compounding lines will expand the future
plant operator’s value-added chain for manufacturing
polyolefin cable compounds, previously outsourced,
which will simplify supply logistics and reduce costs.
The seven compounding lines, installed in three plants,
will enable the production of all commercial cable
compounds. Such comprehensive coverage in a single
order is a first for Buss.
Buss AG – Switzerland Fax: +41 61 825 6858
Email: Website:
New general manager at
Singapore office
Kee Beng Kok is the new general manager of the Niehoff
Singapore Representative Office (NoS), succeeding Alexander
Matuschinski, who retired in March 2007.
Kee Beng Kok studied Produc-
tion Engineering at Singapore
Polytechnic and started his
professional career in 1983.
He worked for investment and
technology companies as a
supervisor of building projects
for six years, before becoming a
salesman for a German trading
house and dealing with products
of leading European machinery
manufacturers.
He sold machinery for the textile industry, the plastic-extrusion
and packaging industry, and finally the wire and cable
industry.
Beside his successful career as a sales agent he participated at
post-graduate courses and acquired a Certificate in Industrial
Management from Singapore Polytechnic and a Master in
Business Administration (MBA).
Kee Beng Kok is married and has two sons and a daughter.
Maschinenfabrik Niehoff GmbH & Co KG – Singapore
Fax: +65 6336 4070
Email: Website:
Kee Beng Kok ▲