7 NEWS PETplanet Insider Vol. 23 No. 09/22 www.petpla.net Sidel expands in East Africa with new Nairobi office opening Sidel has expanded its presence in Africa with the official opening of a new office in Nairobi, Kenya on July 28. The move is intended to increase its support for its customers in East Africa, a key market for Sidel and one of the continent’s fastest-growing regions. Sidel has been serving the African market for many years. Building on this, the new East Africa office will enable it to drive development in the region by working more closely with customers to provide them with dedicated engineering capability and on-the-ground customer service. The East Africa region is made up of 15 countries, from Eritrea in the north to the island of Mauritius. Tanzania, Uganda, Kenya and Ethiopia have some of the highest levels of GDP and disposable income growth on the continent, indicating significant potential for years to come. The new Sidel office is located in the heart of Nairobi’s central business district alongside sister company TetraPak as well as the African head offices of other international companies. Africa is home to the world’s youngest and fastesturbanising population and has the potential to become one of the major sources of global growth. At more than one billion, sub-Saharan Africa’s population is currently growing at around 2.7% a year – more than twice as fast as South Asia and Latin America. www.sidel.com Gerhard Ohler new CEO of Next Generation Recyclingmaschinen GmbH (NGR) Next Generat ion Recycl ingmaschinen GmbH saw a personnel change at the top management. Gerhard Ohler took over the role as CEO of Next Generation Recyclingmaschinen GmbH (NGR), based in Feldkirchen, succeeding Wolfgang Steinwender, who has held this position since May 2020. Ohler, a 54-year-old industrial engineer, has many years of internat ional experience in extrusion technology and plastics recycling. Among other positions, he served as General Manager of Krauss Maffei in Shanghai and Managing Director at Greiner Packaging International. Before joining NGR, the native Upper Austrian was responsible for the management of the Greiner Extrusion Group as CEO since 2013. In his private life, Gerhard Ohler is married and has two grown-up children. Josef Hochreiter, CEO of Next Generation Group: “I am delighted to have gained an experienced manager for us in Gerhard Ohler. With this appointment, we will not only be able to successfully continue along the path we have chosen, but also to break new ground in plastics recycling. We have now created the best conditions to realise our mission ‘working for a better future’ together with a highly motivated team and to continue to develop and build highly efficient recycling machines for our customers in the future.” www.ngr-world.com Gerhard Ohler, new CEO at Next Generation Recyclingmaschinen GmbH
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