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US: Caterpillar has announced a number of personnel changes to its Material Handling & Underground (MH&U) and Surface Mining & Technology (SM&T) divisions. Karl Weiss, vice president of the Earthmoving Division, will become vice president of MH&U following the retirement of Doug Hoerr. Jean Savage, Chief Technology Officer and vice president of the Innovation & Technology Development Division, will become vice president of SM&T following the transfer of Tom Bluth to a new internal position. All of these changes will take effect on 1 August 2017.

Weiss joined Caterpillar in 1992 and has had various assignments within product development at Caterpillar’s Decatur, Joliet and Aurora, Illinois, facilities, primarily focused on large machine structural design. Later he worked in Beijing, China as the wheel loader product manager for the Asia Pacific Region. He then was named the worldwide product manager for medium wheel loaders in Aurora before being named Earthmoving vice president in 2013. Weiss graduated from Purdue University with a degree in agricultural engineering and an MBA from Northern Illinois University.

Savage was formerly senior vice president and Chief Operating Officer of the Locomotive and Railcar Services business unit for Caterpillar subsidiary Progress Rail Services (PRS). Savage joined PRS in 2002 as vice president for Quality and Continuous Improvement. She also served as vice president of PRS’ Freight Car Repair, Parts and Quality Divisions before her most recent position. Prior to joining PRS, she worked in a variety of manufacturing and engineering positions in her 14 years at Parker Hannifin Corporation. That was preceded by nine years in the Army Reserves as a military intelligence officer. Savage has an electrical and computer engineering degree from the University of Cincinnati and a master’s degree in engineering management from the University of Dayton.

US: The board of directors of HarbisonWalker International (HWI) has elected Carol Jackson as its chairman and chief executive officer (CEO) following the retirement of Stephen Delo. He will assume the new position on 1 July 2017. Jackson currently works as senior vice president and general manager at HWI.

Delo was the chairman and CEO at HWI for three and a half years. During his tenure the company combined three US refractories companies together and rebranded them as HWI. Previously, he held several roles at Honeywell International, including positions in chemicals, operating systems, and integrated supply chain.

Austria: Lindner has appointed four new members of its international sales team to cover the Americas and Asia. Christopher Howard has become the general manager for Lindner America covering the shredder manufacturer’s North American operations. Jeff Wolfe has become the sales manager for Lindner America’s Waste Division. Frederico Hartmann has responsibility for the company’s plastics division in Latin America. Gerhard Gamper becomes a sales manger in the Waste Division for Asia.

UK: Stephen Eastick has re-joined Vortex Global. In his new role he will be responsible for the oversight of sales and rep groups throughout Europe. Previously, Eastick was a member of the Vortex Global internal sales team from 2011 to 2015. In that time, he was tasked with managing Asian markets. Most recently, he was employed as an external salesperson for Eclipse Magnetics.

Spain: Casimiro Molins Ribot, the chairman of producer Cementos Molins, has died at the age of 97 years. He had been a member of the board of directors of Cementos Molins for 71 years, where he occupied various executive positions, according to the Expansión newspaper. Casimiro Molins Ribot graduated in Law from the University of Barcelona. In 1945 he was named director and secretary at the board, in 1972 he took the post of chief executive officer (CEO) and since 1986 he has been the chairman of the company.