Newsletter Issue 04 No Images? Click here With world class factories across the globe, NobelClad is highly capable to serve more global customers than any other explosion welding company. Most recently, NobelClad delivered an order to South America that included heads weighing 4 and 6 tons made from steel cladded with stainless steel. The forming was contracted through Brighton Tru-Edge, in Cincinnati, Ohio. Once the heads were formed, they required unique packaging for which NobelClad relied on Boaz Export Crating Company in Houston, Texas. The experienced team at Boaz has worked on several NobelClad projects and is well known for expert packaging of unusual items for export. For this particular shipment, Boaz applied a rust inhibitor to the heads, then fitted shrink wrap and packaged them in custom constructed crates. After a long journey across the ocean, to the customer in South America, the heads arrived on time and undamaged. With global capabilities and unrivaled expertise, NobelClad is the only option to deliver your next critical project.
Antoine Nobili started with the company in May 1995 as an R&D Engineer. “As an R&D engineer, I developed the last generation of Electrical Transition Joints, the ETJ 2000”, Antoine recalls. “As I was the expert for that product, Yvon Cariou (Past DMC CEO, and current member of DMC Board of Directors) asked me to become the Transition Joint Product Manager, in parallel to my R&D position.” It was a great opportunity for Antoine as he started touring aluminum smelters around the world to promote NobelClad products. Antoine is now a global traveler and remarks “I am a strong believer that cross-cultural skills are important for succeeding in the global world.” In 2003, as the Site Manager of NobelClad, Antoine quickly implemented 5S and built a strong QSHE (Quality, Health, Safety and Environmental) culture in the French business, with safety metrics far better than the average in the French metal industry. Antoine credited his team in saying, “Surrounded by great people, we developed a strong ‘customer oriented’ structure in Rivesaltes” which continues today. In 2008, Antoine was promoted to Managing Director-Europe. Antoine has led the integration of the Dynaplat group into DMC/NobelClad and now leads NobelClad Europe SAS in Rivesaltes and NobelClad Europe GmBH & CoKg in Liebenscheid in delivering NobelClad quality and service around the world. He also leads the experienced European leadership team composed of Philippe Roquette, CFO, Olivier Sarrat, Director Customer Service, Manfred Marcy, Liebenscheid Site Manager and Stéphane Pauly Director of Sales - EMEA. Antoine is dedicated to continuing education and at each step of his career he has completed programs applicable to the next challenge ahead. Today, Antoine is in the midst of completing an Executive MBA with a French university. Antoine is a Mechanical Engineer and holds a Master’s Degree in fluid and solid rheology. He shares that he is the “lucky husband” of Sara and father to Maxime and Charlotte. Antoine plays golf, squash and enjoys skiing. But his favorite activity is sharing a good bottle of wine with friends.
Operating the world’s largest explosion welding business comes with a variety of logistical challenges. Near the top of the list is finding locations to detonate thousands of pounds of explosives, daily, without upsetting the neighbors. For NobelClad’s U.S. operations, that location is the Dunbar Mine. Travel 90 minutes southeast of Pittsburgh along the Appalachian Plateau – about five miles past NobelClad’s North American operating facility in Mt. Braddock, Pa. – and you’ll reach the historic community of Dunbar. Just outside town, tucked under the densely forested Chestnut Ridge, are a series of portals to a vast complex of tunnels and chambers that constitute the Dunbar mine. The site has quite a long history.
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