Gerald Steinhoff (52) has been appointed as general manager for financial and administrative affairs at Kassel-based Hübner Group.

A new sales company, Hubner Korea Ltd of Seoul, South Korea, has been set up to focus especially in marketing products of the Hübner Material Solutions business segment, which focuses on sales of elastomers, insulation, and composite materials such as fibre-reinforced plastics for a range of industrial and transportation industries.

Kassel-based Hübner GmbH presented a newly developed electronic steering system for city buses at Busworld of more than 30 metres in length, which, it said, should be implemented by bus manufacturers, in practice, starting next year.

Articulation systems specialist, Hübner GmbH & Co KG has added to its product portfolio for the bus and rail industries with the acquisition of Gummi-Welz GmbH und Co KG, a producer of rubber sealing, insulation and isolation materials and glass-fibre reinforced plastic products for the transportation industry.

Gangway systems specialist for the bus and rail industries, Hübner GmbH & Co KG, is building a new factory for the manufacture of elastic polymer material products in Dunlap.