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Industry News
10 Wire & Cable ASIA – July/August 2007
Lawsuit over trademark 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:
Shareholders make new
appointment to DSM
managing board
The General Meeting of
shareholders of DSM, Netherlands,
has appointed Stephan B Tanda
as a member of the company’s
managing board, as of 1st May
2007.
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, auto-
motive and transport, coatings,
housing, electrics and electronics.
DSM – Netherlands
Fax : +31 45 571 9753
Email:
Website: