Dekel named president of Pelmar Group

Pelmar Group’s board of directors has appointed Tal Dekel as president. Dekel, who holds an MBA, was previously CEO of TGL SP Industries, a fully-owned subsidiary of the Pelmar Group.

The Pelmar Group is made up of four companies in Israel and 10 companies located elsewhere. Locations include site in the UK, Germany, Austria, Italy, Spain, Turkey, US, China and India. The group focuses on the global tyre and rubber industries and Pelmar companies deal with machinery and tooling, raw materials and ingredients for those industries.

As head of TGL SP Industries, Dekel was responsible for continuous annual growth of more than 20 per cent in both sales and capacity for the last four years, Pelmar said in a statement. TGL has a fully automated custom compounding division with capacity of over 16,000 tons per annum. The company is a world leader in design and production of rubber-to-metal bonding for military applications, according to Pelmar.