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Smithers announces the addition of Luis Felipe Juárez for the role of regional consultant, supporting clients in Latin America.
Juárez will provide commercial support for all laboratories in the Smithers Materials Science and Engineering Division as part of the company’s North American consultancy team. He is a chemical engineer with over 26 years of experience working for multinational companies in the specialty chemicals and polymers industry.

Hankook Tire has once again been crowned the Auto Express All Season Tire Test winner with the Kinergy 4S 2 for the second year running. This prestigious award from the respected car magazine comes just 4 months after the Kinergy 4S 2 tire won the Auto Express Product of the Year. Competing against six top tire brands in 14 different tests, Hankook was in the top three across all of the three surfaces, wet, dry and snow, considerably outperforming the competition for wet braking and handling

The Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd., announced that on October 31 it posted the English-language version of its “Integrated Report 2022” on the Company’s English CSR website. The report includes a comprehensive presentation of Yokohama Rubber’s management strategies and business activities. The original Japanese was posted on the Company’s Japanese CSR website on August 31.

The GTE/SEMA Show takes place Nov. 1-4 at the Las Vegas Convention Center in Las Vegas. TIA’s pre-show events include a TopGolf – Government Affairs Benefit on Sunday, Oct. 30 from 2:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m., and its Annual Membership Meeting and Press Conference on Monday Oct. 31, from 12:00 p.m. – 12:30 p.m. at Bally’s of Las Vegas Hotel and Casino.

ACE Laboratories announces that it has earned certification from the Miami-Dade Department of Regulatory and Economic Resources to become an approved testing laboratory for a range of construction industry tests under its ISO/IEC 17025 scope of accreditation.

MAXAM Tire North America announced that Caterpillar Inc. has validated and approved the MS302 29.5R25 E3/L3 tire for use on Cat® 740 GC Articulated Dump Trucks.

Molex announced a major expansion of its global manufacturing footprint with the opening of a new factory in Guadalajara. The new 60,000 square-meter facility nearly doubles Molex’s footprint and manufacturing space in Guadalajara, with the potential to increase capacity by an additional 100,000 square meters to support advanced engineering and large-scale production for automotive, transportation and industrial customers in North America and around the world.

DuPont announced that its Board of Directors has declared a fourth quarter dividend of thirty-three cents ($0.33) per share on the outstanding Common Stock of the Company (par value $0.01 per share) payable on December 15, 2022, to holders of record of said stock at the close of business on November 30, 2022.

HEXPOL Compounding Lesina S.R.O received a certificate which proved the conformity of the chain of custody requirements of PEFC ST 2001:2020 and 2002:2020 for natural rubber compounds.