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Hubert Jacobs van Merlen

Hubert Jacobs van Merlen

Member of the Board of Directors

 

Appointed 2003

 

 

 

Hubert Jacobs van Merlen (°1953) is since 1997 President and CEO of IEE SA, Luxembourg, a leading company in the field of automotive safety sensors with manufacturing sites in Luxembourg and technical sales offices in the USA, Korea and Japan.
He started his career in 1978 as auditor of KPMG (Houston) and became in 1981 Division Controller of the Drilling Fluids Division of Chromalloy American Corp. (St. Louis, MO). In 1987 he transferred to Commercial Intertech Corp. (Youngstown, OH) as European Finance Director and was appointed in 1995 Sr. Vice President & CFO.

Hubert Jacobs van Merlen obtained his degree in Economic Sciences in 1977 at the Catholic University of Louvain (Belgium).

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metal fiber web filter

Situation

Ever-tougher emission standards and legislation are forcing OEMs to develop ever-cleaner engines.

Solution

A sintered metal fiber web made of Bekaert metal fibers is used in a diesel particulate filter to lower the emission and to make filter maintenance redundant.

Result

Customers discover that filtration based on metal fibers is an excellent alternative to traditional ceramic filters.