04.12.2008

New head of operations for Manitou

Manitou has announced the arrival today of Christian Caleca, 50, who takes up the position of chief operations officer. Caleca has held various positions within several industrial groups as commercial director, industrial director and vice president.
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Christian Caleca

He joins Manitou from Trelleborg, where he was president of the industrial hose business unit.

In his new position, Caleca will be in charge of Manitou’s industrial
department, along with having responsibility for domestic and international commercial departments, purchasing, logistics, research and development and quality departments.

Caleca was involved in a high profile US justice department anti cartel/bid-rigging law suit against Trelleborg and several other marine hose suppliers, including Dunlop. He and a colleague co-operated fully with the justice department and pleaded guilty, which resulted in a custodial sentence and eventual departure from the company where he had spent at least 10 years.