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NEWS
Harvey Brodsky Dies Aged 81
Harvey Brodsky, who for many years was Managing Director of TRIB and more recently founded the Retread Tire Association, has died in Pacific Grove, California at the age of 81 from complications arising from lung cancer, which he had been fighting since March this year.
Brodsky was one of the most recognisable figures in the retreading industry worldwide, defending the industry with a boundless enthusiasm that could not fail to inspire anyone who met him. Over
the years his name became synonymous with the industry he represented. Brodsky took over the leadership of TRIB in 1982 after stints with the Lodi Super Mold Co. and Big O Tires. In 1991, he received the American Retreaders Association (ARA) Industry Leadership Award and in 2000, he was inducted into the International Tire & Rubber Association Hall of Fame.
Brodsky left TRIB in 2010 and immediately founded the Retread Tire Association, but in December 2016 severe back problems forced his to pass the leadership of RTA on
to Jeffrey Parks. Brodsky leaves a wife, Rona Halpern, who herself has been battling cancer for many years. On a personal note, I will never forget how Harvey supported me when I was trying to set up Retreading Business and its forerunner, the European Retreading Review in the mid-1990s. I will always be grateful to him and count him as a true friend in the industry. He will be sadly missed.
VMI Poland is a key element in VMI’s growth strategy and instrumental to the realisation of the ambitious plans of VMI Group. The new facility helps shorten the delivery time of VMI’s high end equipment, while maintaining a competitive cost level. The facility operates next to the existing sites of the VMI Group, which now has entities in 8 countries on 4 continents.
Harm Voortman, President and CEO
of VMI Group commented: “This new manufacturing facility brings our global production capacity in line with current high order intake volumes and enables us to prepare for further growth. Our commitment to supply the market innovative solutions is clearly visible in this ultra-modern facility. We welcome the young and ambitious team of VMI Poland and wish them a lot of success.”
Superdoll Gains ISO 9001- 2015 Certification
VMI Opens
New Manufacturing Facility in Poland
Mr Lukasz Borowiak, mayor of Leszno and Mr Alexander van der Lof, Chairman of the Executive Board of TKH Group open VMI’s Polish plant
On September 5th, VMI opened its new manufacturing facility in Leszno, Poland. The plant was officially opened by Mr Lukasz Borowiak, mayor of Leszno and Mr Alexander van der Lof, Chairman of the Executive Board of TKH Group.
The facility, built on an 8 hectare plot of land, comprises 13,500 m2 of manufacturing floor space, warehousing and offices. After the
groundbreaking ceremony in November of last year, construction took only eight months. The plant currently offers employment to 70 people and thus is expected to grow to over 150 employees before mid- 2018. The state-of-the-art manufacturing facility produces according to the latest Lean principles and is entirely prepared for future capacity expansion.
The Superdoll OTR retreading and repair plant, located in Zambia’s Ndola Copperbelt has announced that it has achieved certification according to the Quality Management System Based on ISO 9001-2015. The certification audit was conducted by the Zambian Bureau of Standards (ZABS) on April 4-5, 2017.
After a three-year construction process supported by the Zambian Government, through the Zambian Development Agency (ZDA), Superdoll has now started to operate and serve the entire Zambian mining industry.
“Our Superdoll OTR plant is equipped with the latest world technology, state of the art machines, non-destructive Shearography method, and decades of experience”, said Vick Nachshon, CEO of Superdoll Zambia.
The Superdoll plant, certified and granted by the Mine Safety Department (MSD), is the only Certified Retreading and Repair plant in Zambia and claims to be the only plant on the African continent capable of retreading and repairing OTR tyres from 25” up to 63”.
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