Tidland President Retires

CAMAS, Wash.—Tidland Corporation has announced the retirement of an influential leader. Quino Lorente will leave the company in a position of global strength—a position that he helped to secure, says Tidland.

Lorente joined Tidland Corporation in 1985 as Manager of Business Development, where his primary focus was international growth. In 1990 he became General Manager of Tidland Electronics and led the team responsible for changing slitting technology with the introduction of the ESP—the industry's first fully automated positioning system. This paved the way for later advances like the MSP - Automated Slitter Positioning systems, the Performance Series Knifeholder, which is very popular with operators, and more recently, the introduction of another industry-first, the award-winning e-Knifeholder. In 1998, Quino was named Vice President of Tidland Slitting, and President of Tidland Corporation shortly after 1999.