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NEWS
VMI Raises more
than 96,000 Euro with Duchenne Heroes
With an impressive finish in the Dutch city of Eindhoven, the VMI Duchenne Heroes team completed its seven-day mountain bike tour recently. A team of 38 mountain bikers and 14 support team members participated in this event during September and raised over 96,000 Euros for the Duchenne Parent Project.
Each year, VMI participates in a challenging sporting event to raise money for charity. The VMI team was the largest team in the 12- year history of the Duchenne Heroes and made a substantial contribution to the over 1 million Euros that was raised with this year’s edition.
The Duchenne Heroes is seven days of mountain biking, 700 or 500 kilometres off road, through the mountainous Saarland and
Vulkaneifel regions of Germany and Luxembourg, over famous tracks in the Ardennes, Belgium, and finishing in Eindhoven in the Netherlands. The goal is to raise money for research to treat and cure Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy.
Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy is a muscle disease. When you are born with Duchenne, your muscles slowly deteriorate and become weaker over time. Duchenne mostly affects boys, and at this moment there is no cure or no way of preventing this devastating disease. The money raised with Duchenne Heroes goes to the Duchenne Parent Project, a parent organisation dedicated to research and finding a cure for Duchenne.
8 Retreading Business
KRAIBURG Austria Invests in the Spanish market
KRAIBURG Austria has intensified its activities in the Spanish market following the appointment of Alessandro Bottesini as the company’s new sales manager in March, and the company is now able to offer extended technical support for its proven range of high quality products.
“Recently, we were able to offer two Spanish retreaders technical sup¬port based on our many years of extensive expertise”, says Holger Düx, Head of Sales at KRAIBURG Austria. “In the future, we will continue to promote this kind of collaboration with our partners who want to try
the KRAIBURG quality.”
“The developments in the Spanish market present us with a challenge”, adds Alessandro Bottesini. “However, we see a great opportunity to increase the awareness on the Spanish market of the KRAIBURG brand, which has stood for quality and reliability for decades. The goal is to exploit hitherto untapped potential in order to assume a similar position here as we already occupy in the other major European markets such as Germany, Italy or the UK in the intermediate term.”
B&J Rocket Puts an End to Heavy Blade Packaging
In order to better meet the requirements of global health and safety regulations, B&J Rocket has changed the specification of its packaging units and made the packaging boxes 10 kg lighter. The boxes of buffing blades consisting of 30 sets (formerly 50 sets / 25 kg) weigh only 15 kg and are thus much better suited to the actual load limits for the lifting and carrying of occasional loads.
B&J Rocket has not only looked at the legal requirements, but also at the needs of the people who work with the tools daily. The lighter boxes protect the backs of the employees of customers, as well as those of service providers such as logistics companies and freight carriers.
In addition, the lower number of blade sets per box allows for a more flexible purchase of goods and optimises storage due to a
more compact packaging.
B&J Rocket will be introducing the pack sizes by the spring of 2018, and depending on the destocking of 50s boxes at companies and dealers, the corresponding type of blade will henceforward be delivered in packs of 30.
Andreas Müller, President B&J Rocket, commented; "Our price structure remains unchanged, as we charge for each blade and not per box. This measure is the legal upper limit for workplace health regulations. We are convinced that this change will quickly and positively prove itself to long-term customers and end-users,” he added.
Malaysian Government Confident of Achieving
Tread Rubber Export Targets
According to a report from Malaysian news agency Bernama, the Asian country’s Ministry of Plantation Industries and Commodities is confident of achieving a RM130 million export target for pre-cured tread rubber and retread tyres set for this year. Following a visit to Goodway Integrated Industries factory in Nilai, Deputy Minister, Datuk Datu Nasrun Datu Mansur said the export of pre-cured tread rubber and retread tyres increased 16.5 per cent to RM61 million in the first half of 2017 from RM52.7 million in the corresponding period of 2016.
“I am confident that we can achieve this year’s target and one
of the efforts to ensure this is to enhance the quality of the products through research and development,” he said. “Only by producing high-quality products we can ensure our strength in the industry.”
“The government will continue to provide a business-friendly environment and policies to ensure that the pre-cured tread rubber and retread tyre industry will continue to prosper,” he added.
Nasrun said that currently 15 local companies were producing pre-cured tread rubber and 70 factories manufacturing retread tyres.