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Avery Dennison Corporation announced that it named Jeroen Diderich to the role of vice president and general manager for Materials Group Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA), effective January 1, 2017. Jeroen will replace Angelo Depietri, who will be retiring at the end of the year. Reporting to Georges Gravanis, Jeroen

Dipl.-Ing. Michael Mehnert (34), youngest son of the company’s founder Gottfried Mehnert, joined the family company in various functions after successfully studying mechanical engineering in Aachen. In spring 2016, Michael Mehnert was appointed Managing Director of Bekum Maschinenfabrik Traismauer GesmbH, with the aim of supporting the long-standing Managing Director Dipl.-Ing. MBA

Gerd Liebig (55) will be new CEO at Sumitomo (SHI) Demag. Starting January 1st, 2017 he will succeed Dr Tetsuya Okamura (60) who will take over a new responsible position at Sumitomo Heavy Industries Ltd. Gerd Liebig has been working in responsible positions in Sales and Marketing the injection moulding industry

The management board of the Albis Plastic Group has announced that Carsten W. Wörner, Chief Sales Officer will, by mutual agreement, leave the company on 30 September 2016. Wörner took on the position of CSO on April 1, 2012 and since then has lead worldwide sales and the technical applications department.

Amcor Rigid Plastics has announced the appointment of Ashish Saxena as vice president and general manager of LiquiForm Group LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Amcor. Saxena will be based at Amcor’s Saline, Michigan, USA facility and will report directly to Amcor Rigid Plastics President Michael Schmitt. In his new role, Saxena

Bekum Maschinenfabriken now have a new Technical Director. Dr Wilfried Lehmann will take over this role with immediate effect. Dr Lehmann is known to Bekum customers already, as he previously held this position from 1998 to 2002. With this foundation, he will be able to draw on his practical experience in

Renzo Davatz will become the new CEO of Netstal-Maschinen AG effective July 1, 2016. He takes over this role from Dr Hans Ulrich Golz, who will become the new Chairman of the Board of Directors of Netstal. Davatz assumes the duties of Dr Hans Ulrich Golz, who as CEO has been

Graham Engineering Corporation has appointed Robert Schroeder as director of business development for blow moulding systems. He will be responsible for worldwide commercial leadership of Graham Engineering’s range of blow moulding systems. Robert Schroeder comes to this new position after being business development manager at Graham Packaging Company, a customer of

Achim Ebel, the former associate and general manager of B+B Anlagenbau GmbH has joined Herbold Meckesheim GmbH as division manager for washing lines. Achim Ebel has many years of experience in conception, manufacture, supply and operation of plastics recycling lines. He can profit from his knowledge gained in plant engineering and

KraussMaffei has appointed Klaus Zeiler as the new Head of the Logistics/Packaging business unit in the injection moulding machinery segment with immediate effect.He is taking over the duties of Emilio Lopez, who in future as Area Sales Manager for Ibero-America will concentrate on the expansion of the sales activities for the