Hunter Highlights Vol. 115

Hunter was recently selected from automotive equipment suppliers throughout the world to provide wheel aligners for the renowned WorldSkills 2005 student competition in Helsinki, Finland. Hunter’s distributor in Finland, Wihuri Oy Autola, organized the company’s role in the competition and delivered the Hunter S811 Alignment Systems and DSP600 Sensors to the event. With the winners decided, the equipment is now slated for use in vocational schools around Finland.

WorldSkills 2005 brought 700 young people from 38 countries to Helsinki to compete for the world championships in 39 skill areas including automotive technology. Students from Ireland, Austria and Korea took the Gold, Silver and Bronze Medals respectively in the Automotive Technology category.

A unique feature of the Hunter aligners made them an ideal fit for the international competition. Students could compete in their native languages by simply selecting from 36 languages listed in the systems’ WinAlign® software setup menu before beginning the alignment procedure.

Equipment and Supplies Product Manager Bob Armstrong (left) of Bridgestone-Firestone USA Retail Division and Hunter product manager Dave Scribner recently met at Hunter’s US Research and Training Center in St. Louis to review the newest wheel balancer and tire service technology.

Pictured from left, Ed Velazquez, Latin America Regional Manager; Enrique Medina, Service Organization Supervisor – Monterrey, Nuevo Leon; Salvador Mendoza, Director of Technical Development & Training – Monterrey, Nuevo Leon; Jesús Salomón, Technical Representative – Guadalajara, Jalisco; Francisco Mendez, Technical Representative – Chihuahua, Chihuahua; Carlos Vargas, Technical Representative – Culiacan, Sinaloa.

Hunter is deploying a force of independent service and sales representatives in Mexico that emulate the very successful sales and service structure in the U.S. These new service representatives recently completed training at Hunter’s U.S. Research and Training Center in St. Louis and will be deployed throughout Mexico.