WCA July 2007

Industry News

Lawsuit over trademark settled Reelex Packaging Solutions, Inc (formerly Windings, Inc), USA, has announced that it has settled its lawsuit against Commodity Cables Inc. Reelex had sued the company over the unauthorised use of its REELEX ® trademark. In the settlement, Commodity Cables acknowledged that it had violated Reelex’s trademark rights, and agreed to pay Reelex for all attorneys fees and costs as well as unspecified additional monetary damages. Commodity also agreed to destroy any inventory containing the trademark, cease unauthorised use of the trademark,

and identify the Chinese manufacturer who supplied Commodity with the counterfeit packaging. Tom Copp, president of Reelex, said: “We are pleased to have reached an expedient and amicable resolution to our lawsuit. We feel it is important to take these actions when necessary to protect the interests of our authorised licensees and to help stem the importation of counterfeit, inferior coils that compete unfairly with the genuine Reelex coils produced by our licensees.”

Reelex Packaging Solutions Inc – USA Fax : +1 845 878 7884 Email : sales@reelex.com

Website : www.reelex.com

Shareholders make new appointment to DSM managing board of shareholders of DSM, Netherlands, has appointed Stephan B Tanda as a member of the company’s managing board, as of 1 st May 2007. Mr Tanda studied mechanical and plastics engineering at the University of Leoben, Austria, and business administration at the Wharton Business School of the University of Pennsylvania, USA, and started his career in 1991 with DuPont in Switzerland. In 2000 he became president of Protein Technologies International Inc and later president and CEO of the Solae Company, USA, a joint venture between DuPont and Bunge in the area of food innovation and food ingredient manufacturing. Since 2004, Mr Tanda has been president and CEO of Freudenberg Nonwovens, Germany and USA. DSM is active worldwide in nutritional and pharma ingredients, performance materials and industrial chemicals. The company’s products are used in a wide range of end markets and applications such as human and animal nutrition and health, cosmetics, pharmaceuticals, auto- motive and transport, coatings, housing, electrics and electronics. The General Meeting

DSM – Netherlands Fax : +31 45 571 9753 Email : info@dsm.com Website : www.dsm.com

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