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David Colletti has joined Bridgestone as President, Consumer Original Equipment Tire Sales, North America. As President, Colletti will lead all original equipment tire activities for the North America market, including long-range planning, sales, operations, marketing and program management. In addition, he will be responsible for setting the growth strategy for the company’s original equipment tire business with a key focus on expanding the company’s offering beyond tires to include sustainable mobility solutions

As of January 1, 2022, Dr Christian Meermann has joined Gummiwerk KRAIBURG & Co. KG as Global Sales Director. Meermann, who holds a PhD in chemistry, brings wide experience from management roles in the international sales and marketing of polymers.
After his chemistry studies at the Technical University of Munich and completion of his Doctorate at the University of Bergen in Norway and Osaka University in Japan, followed by a short postdoctoral position at the CAT Catalytic Center, he began his professional career in 2009 at Ticona (Celanese) in the catalyst and polymer research.

From now on, the TractorMaster and VF TractorMaster product lines are part of the tire portfolio for the New Holland T5, T6 and T7 tractor series. These New Holland tractors series will also be equipped with Continental tires of various sizes to better meet customers’ needs. The tire portfolio ranges up to a tire width of 710mm and a rim diameter of 42’’.

ChemSpec Canada, Inc. announced the hire of Bassem Soss Khalifa as Regional Account Manager with responsibility for the company’s Eastern Canada territory.

Bassem brings more than 14 years of progressive chemical industry sales experience to the newly created role. His wealth of skills in the coatings, plastics, consumer and personal care segments will assist the company in achieving goals that align with the broader mission and priorities of parent company, Safic-Alcan, and affiliate, ChemSpec, Ltd (USA).

Goodyear’s fourth quarter 2021 sales were $5.1 billion, up 38% from a year ago. The increase was driven by the Cooper Tire merger, improvements in price/mix, increased sales from other tire-related businesses and higher volume.

Registration & housing is open for the Rubber Division, ACS Spring Technical Meeting being held April 26-28, 2022 in Warrensville Heights, Ohio.

Bellofram Silicones, a leading manufacturer of sponge and solid rubber, has made a capital investment in a new Fecken-Kirfel skiver, an acquisition that immediately slashes lead times for key products to converters to one week or less.

Global supply chain issues have dominated the news in the era of COVID-19, along with resulting delays in delivery of product, but Bellofram Silicones, a member of Marsh Bellofram’s Elastomers Division, had kept lead times to an already manageable five to six weeks. The acquisition of the skiver further changes the game.

Nashville, TN – Bridgestone Americas has named Ebonee Davis Ifeobu as vice president of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DE&I). Davis Ifeobu will lead Bridgestone’s newly formed DE&I Center of Excellence (COE), an elevated and expanded DE&I office that will cultivate an even more inclusive culture that advances equity, embraces individuality and helps its increasingly diverse teammates, customers and communities thrive.

BRM’s specialty fabrics, available in a wide variety of fiber combinations and weave structures, are used in the engineered rubber industry for the manufacture of rubber belting, rubber hoses, and other specialty rubber applications. Proprietary BRM fabrics are available for cure wrap for hoses to hold the rubber in place during the curing process, internal reinforcements to improve tensile resistance, and belting, in which layers of rubber sheet and fabric are combined to increase strength and elongation resistance.