Reorganization Puts Focus on New Products, Innovation

Noel DiBona has been promoted to Vice President of New Product Research & Development for Mickey Truck Bodies, where he will devote 100% of his time toward identifying and developing innovative new solutions for customers and new product opportunities for the company. He reports directly to Dean Sink, President & CEO.

Noel joined Mickey in 2010 as Vice President Engineering, Purchasing & Project Services, his most recent title, to spearhead the implementation of the Mickey Engineered Vehicles Division, which offers unique technology to the specialty vehicles industry for medical, oil & gas and emergency responserelated applications.

?This reorganization puts responsibility for these key departments into the hands of experienced executives who can dedicate the necessary time and effort into each area,? Dean explains. ?Noel has been inspirational in developing new products in our Mickey Engineering Vehicles division. In this new role his exclusive focus will be on new product and market development.?

A Chemical Engineer, Noel joined Mickey with over 25 years of experience in major corporations such as Kraft General Foods, The Clorox Company, Fluor Corporation and Tetra Tech. He served in the U.S. Army as an Airborne Ranger and held research positions at the Chemical Research Development & Engineering Lab in Edgewood, MD, where he contributed several patents for the decontamination of chemical warfare agents.

?At Mickey we have the ability to develop products for totally new client industries by listening carefully to the customer and then leveraging our existing experience and expertise,? Noel says.