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Industry News
Wire & Cable ASIA – January/February 2007
New advisory board
chairman
Dutch company DSM has appointed
Professor Bert Meijer as chairman of its
new Scientific Advisory Board.
The creation of the advisory body is in
line with the company’s Open Innovation
policy.
The other members of the advisory
board will be internationally recognised
leading experts in fields that
are important to DSM, such as
biotechnology, nutrition, material
sciences, chemistry and process
technology.
Professor Meijer is a distinguished
University Professor of Molecular
Sciences at the Eindhoven University
of Technology.
He received his PhD in organic
chemistry from the University of
Groningen, and has held various
positions in both industry and
academia.
Having worked as a research scientist
in molecular materials at Philips
Research Laboratories in Eindhoven,
he joined DSM Research in 1989 as
head of the ‘New Materials’
department, a position he held until
1992, when he became Full Professor
of Organic Chemistry at the Eindhoven
University of Technology.
In 2004 he was appointed to his current
professorship. His other academic
positions include Assistant Professor
of Macromolecular Chemistry at the
Radboud University in Nijmegen, and
Distinguished Visiting Professor at the
University of California in Santa
Barbara, USA, as of this year.
Professor Meijer is an acclaimed
scientist who has won several
prestigious national and international
awards, including the Gold Medal of
the Royal Netherlands Chemical
Society, the Spinoza Award of the
Netherlands Organisation for Scientific
Research and, most recently, the
American Chemical Society Award in
Polymer Chemistry.
DSM – Netherlands
Fax: +31 45 5740680
Email:
Website:
New facility in Grand
Rapids, Michigan
for InterWire
Interwire Products, USA, has opened a
new 80,000 square foot facility in
Grand Rapids, Michigan, to service the
Western Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana
and Michigan markets.
The addition of the new building to the
company’s eight existing distribution
centres brings its total warehousing
throughout the United States up to
400,000ft2.
The InterWire Group can supply ferrous
and non-ferrous spring wire, special
temper wires and strips, and second
process operation needs such as
flattening, shaping, plating, edging,
torsion straightening and cutting.
The company has also added new
products to its extensive product line
for the spring and OEM industry.
InterWire Group – USA
Fax: +1 914 273 6848
Website:
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