Mike joined ACE in January 2025 as Business Development Manager, bringing more than 20 years of experience across elastomers, plastics, and distribution. His background includes leadership roles in specialty polymers, custom mixing and laboratory services, with a reputation for building strong relationships and delivering results.
Read Moreshland expands viatel™ bioresorbable polymers offering with additional grades for medical devices and aesthetic medicine. The use of bioresorbable polymers as alternatives to permanent, non-degradable materials in biomedical applications offers various benefits including; removing the need for surgical removal, reducing interventions and clinic visits, reduced long-term foreign body response, allowing personalized/targeted therapies including local drug release and flexibility to solve many complex device-specific challenges.
Read MoreReed brings more than 15 years of experience in investor relations, corporate development and financial planning and analysis to Goodyear. He most recently served as vice president, Corporate Development, Investor Relations, and FP&A at Wabash National. Prior to Wabash, Reed held senior roles at Parker Hannifin, including director of Investor Relations and corporate economist. Reed holds a bachelor’s degree in economics from Baldwin Wallace University and a master’s degree in economics and finance from the University of Leeds.
Read Moreontinental is increasingly using silica variants derived from the ashes of rice husks across its whole tire portfolio. Rice husks are an agricultural by-product of the Asian agriculture and Italian risotto rice production. This type of silica is manufactured by Solvay in Italy, among others. Innovative processing methods are used to turn this agricultural by-product product into silica.
Read MoreArburg’s history in Brazil dates back to 1988, when the Romi sales agency took over the marketing of Allrounder injection molding technology. The South American market developed so successfully that Arburg opened its own subsidiary in São Paulo in 2000. Its 25th anniversary was celebrated with customers and employees on 25 and 26 June 2025, in the presence of Managing Partner Juliane Hehl and Sales Director Tobias Baur from Arburg’s Lossburg headquarters.
Read MoreYokohama Tire is launching five new videos to help consumers learn more about tire safety and maintenance. The short videos are hosted by Christian Schauf, an avid off-roader/adventurer, who is also the founder and CEO of Uncharted Supply Company, a manufacturer of high-quality survival systems. The educational videos are being released in conjunction with the U.S. Tire Manufacturers Association’s National Tire Safety Week initiative, which ran through July 4th.
Read MoreContinental is continually expanding its strong position in the global market for ultra-high-performance (UHP) tires. UHP tires are technologically sophisticated, available in sizes from 18 inches and designed for safe and dynamic driving at high speeds. Between 2019 and 2024, the premium tire manufacturer sold around 15 percentage points more UHP tires in the passenger car and light truck segment worldwide. Over the same period, the share of sales of UHP tires for all Continental brands rose from 38 to 52 percent, and to 60 percent for the core Continental brand. Five years ago, this figure sat at 46 percent.
Read Moreontinental’s group sector ContiTech has appointed Ryan Gocher as head of distribution for its Industrial Solutions business in the Americas, effective July 1. He will succeed Guy Enta, who is retiring in July.
In his new role, Gocher will report to Andreas Gerstenberger, CEO of ContiTech USA and Head of the Business Area Industrial Solutions Americas.
FARREL POMINI announced that Luigi Buttafuoco has joined the organization as Field Sales Engineer. In this role, he will be responsible for sales of FARREL POMINI® Continuous Mixing equipment and ancillary services across the East Coast, as well as Kentucky, Tennessee and Alabama.
Read MoreDave Bloom assumes the position as POLYMERS’ Vice President of WACKER’s North and Central America (NCA) polymer business activities effective March 1, 2025. He succeeds Mathias Wiedemann, who took over as president of WACKER BIOSOLUTIONS on January 1, 2025.
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