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MALNATI AND SAIZ CHAMPION THE CONTRIBUTION OF WOMEN
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BEST COMPANY DIRECTOR
BEST TYRE RECYCLING RESEARCH PROJECT
Leticia Saiz Rodriguez receives her award from Tyre & Rubber Recycling Publisher David Wilson
Patricia Malnati and Leticia Saíz Rodríguez are pictured together during the Recircle Awards Ceremony in Bologna
One of Patricia Malnati’s driving motivations community and in the business environment to strike a blow in support of these aims by carrying off the best CEO Award in the 2022 Recircle Awards. In doing so, she was one of two women to win individual awards this year, the other being Leticia Saiz Rodríguez, who, together with her research partner José
Malnati is the Director of a family-owned SME in Argentina called Jomsalva SA. She is also the Director of the Sustainability Committee of the Latin American Society of Rubber Technology and the Vice Pre- sident of the Sustainability Department of the Industrial Union of the Province of Buenos Aires, Argentina. In addition, she and is a Member of WAS Women Action Sustainability.
group of researchers who developed a study to determine the biomass content in tyres at the end of their useful life. Her work is consi- dered particularly important due to the fact that it can be taken as a reference by various research teams seeking to quantify the car- bon footprint of tyres.
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