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DMEA
ComPanies
Doosan Bobcat names
president for Europe,
Mideast Africa
Doosan Bobcat, a global leader in compact equipment industry, has appointed Gustavo Otero as its new president for europe, Middle east and Africa (eMeA) region.
An industry veteran, Otero joined Doosan Bobcat in 2012 and most recently served as eMeA region vice president of Compact and Telehandlers.
Prior to this, he was vice president of Doosan Infracore Construction equipment eMeA and served as general manager
at Geith and has an extensive 20-year background in the global construction equipment and automotive industries.
he earned a master’s degree in industrial engineering at Universidade de Vigo, an executive MBA from IeSIDe Business Institute and a PDD from IeSe Business School Universidad de Navarra.
On the appointment, Otero said: “I look forward to working with our global function teams, leaders and dealer network to further position us for long term growth and bring enhanced collaboration and innovations.”
“I believe that the expanded global organisational structure will assist us in reaching new levels of success in eMeA and reinforce our position as the global leader in compact equipment to bring the best value
to our customers,” stated the top o cial, who will be based out of Doosan Bobcat’s eMeA headquarters at Dobris in the Czech Republic.
Otero’s appointment comes as part of a major revamp by the group which saw
naming of several regional presidents besides other key organisational changes in the global structure of the company.
e changes have been announced as the company works across all regions to fully integrate and leverage the strength and scale of the business around the world, whilst maintaining the focus on customer centric solutions and further expanding and re ning the company’s full liner strategy, said the statement from Doosan Bobcat.
As a result, the group has appointed new regional presidents and set up a di erent global organisation and leadership structure, including newly-created global groups responsible for engineering, procurement and strategy.
Doosan BoBCat
refining
KBC wins PIPs for three oil refineries
emerging markets.
Middle eastern re neries are therefore
embarking on value chain optimisation e orts to increase asset productivity and the associated supply chain e ciency, thereby boosting resilience to market volatility.
rough the PIP, KBC will identify and implement a series of on-site productivity and e ciency improvements across each re nery focusing on capacity utilisation, molecular management, yield improvement, corrosion and fouling mitigation, and energy e ciency.
Andrew howell, CeO of KBC, said, “Our observation is that global forecasts for re ned products are being revised down, especially gasoil/diesel, gasoline and fuel oil cracks.”
“KBC’s PIP campaigns are vital for assuring capital e ciency by developing the necessary operational exibility and identifying
strategic investments so that return on capital employed targets can be easily and routinely exceeded,” he added.
KBC
fUeLs
ENOC continues retail
growth with new service
station in Fujairah
eNOC Group has opened a new service station in Fujairah in line with its plans to expand its network to 191 stations in the UAe by end-2020. e Al Faseel service station will be eNOC’s ninth station in Fujairah since the rst station in the emirate in 1989.
e station caters to a large community in Al Faseel that spans an area from hilton Fujairah hotel in the south, running inland
KBC (A Yokogawa Company) has announced that it has been awarded Pro t Improvement Programmes (PIP) for three oil re neries in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) region.
e PIPs, which focus on improving techno-economic aspects of re nery operations, will deliver improved safety, reliability, and pro tability outcomes that enhance triple bottom line performance.
e World Bank is planning to so en global economic growth to 2.9 per cent
in 2019; a 10-year low. is is based on forecast weakening of international trade and manufacturing activity, elevated trade tensions, and substantial (experienced) nancial market pressures in some large
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Week 27 10•July•2019