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The Tire Industry Association (TIA) has reorganised its leadership team in a move to create an organisational structure that will better serve TIA’s mission into the future, CEO Richard “Dick” Gust has announced.

KRAIBURG Austria has announced the addition of two new employees to strengthen their product management and sales teams. 

Tipler recently carried out sales and product training for the commercial team of Marques Pneus, from Sumaré/SP.

On Easter Monday, the long-time former Managing Director of Marangoni Retreading Systems Deutschland GmbH, Klaus Zimmermann, passed away at the age of 83.

PRE-Q GALGO recently honoured Bob Majewski at a celebratory retirement dinner in Newport, KY.

Canadian tyre repair specialists ITRS Group have announced a reorganisation of the structure of their top management team.

Brazilian retread equipment manufacturer Lukatec, has paid tribute to its Operations and Innovations Director, Eduardo Engbrecht, who has completed 15 years with the company, presenting him with an award at the company’s headquarters in Sao Leopoldo.

The UK-based trade magazine Tyre & Accessories has reported that owner and publisher Klaus Haddenbrock has passed away at the age of 77.

The Tire Industry Association’s (TIA) Hall of Fame Committee has selected two new inductees for the Tire Industry Hall of Fame: TIA CEO Roy Littlefield III and the late Martin J. Barry, a former president of the National Tire Dealers Association, who will enter in the historic category.

Truck Tyre Specialists, the Weston super Mare-based retreader has announced that Bob Collins, one of the company’s founders, passed away on Sunday 6 June, aged 79, after a battle with cancer.