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New position changes for Marketing Tri-Sure Closures Europe
Pierre-Emmanuel Boileau Joins Tri-Sure® Closures Team
By James King, Oct. 6, 2009
I am pleased to announce the addition of Pierre-Emmanuel Boileau to the Tri-Sure Closures team as European Plastics Key Account Manager. In his position, Pierre-Emmanuel will focus on boosting sales of Tri-Sure plastics products to key and large accounts across Europe. He will report directly to me.
Pierre-Emmanuel has a strong background in selling specialty closures to international key accounts, having spent six years in the consumer spray pumps industry, including five years at Calmar, a subsidiary of Saint Gobain. Most recently, Pierre-Emmanuel was responsible for Canyon Europe's entry into Eastern European consumer pump markets. Pierre-Emmanuel also worked for five years in Sales & Marketing in the corrugated container industry.
Pierre-Emmanuel will be based in Rouen, France, where he lives with his wife and two daughters.
James King Joins Tri-Sure® Closures Team
By Reinier Hietink, Dec. 23, 2008,
We are pleased to announce that James King, currently Sales & Marketing Manager for Greif
IP&S Europe, will join Tri-Sure Closures as Sales and Marketing Manager on Jan. 1st. Egbert-Jan Boertien, previously Commercial Manager for Tri-Sure Europe, will assume the new position of Strategic Planning & Distribution Manager for Tri-Sure to optimize the allocation of production, the supply chain and working capital of all TS products. He will also continue in his current role as BU Controller Tri-Sure.
With the appointment of James and EJ to their new positions, Tri-Sure will be better positioned to serve our external and internal customers as well as take Commercial Excellence to the next level. Both James and EJ will be directly reporting to Reinier Hietink.
Philippe Marty will take over from James King as Director Marketing and ComEx for Europe, reporting to Ivan Signorelli.
Ivan Signorelli Senior VP and SBU Manager Europe, Reinier Hietink VP and General Manager, Tri-Sure Closures
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Art is where you find it
By Hietink / van der Made, Dec. 23, 2008
Reinier Hietink forwarded the following pictures that Jack van der Made took of drum / closures art at Bergen, the Netherlands. Jack is a purchaser for Tri-Sure® Closures. Click here to see the pictures.
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More Industrial Packaging Art
By E.van Griethuysen, Monaco 04/2009
Eric van Griethuysen submitted these remarkable Industrial Art pictures he took on a trip to Monaco earlier this year. Click here to see the pictures.
Tri-Sure Closures Takes on Dam Challenge
By Irène Dikken, Oct. 6, 2009
22 runners from Tri-Sure® Closures Amsterdam and one runner from Tri-Sure Closures Rouen participated in the world’s largest business running event of the year. Read more
Industry News
Nitrites + Amines = Bad News
Article from Lube Report, by Nancy DeMarco (May 2010)
Metalworking fluid manufacturers and marketers need to check with their steel drum suppliers, to be sure they are not using sodium nitrite as a final rinse to prevent rust. Nitrites in the rust inhibitor can react with secondary amines in metalworking fluids, forming carcinogenic nitrosamines. Get the full article here
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