Coperion: Executive Board changes

With immediate effect, the German company Coperion GmbH (www.coperion.com), headquartered at Stuttgart, has streamlined its Executive Board. Wolfgang Pöschl, Member of the Executive Board of Coperion GmbH and Head of the Competence Center Compounding & Extrusion, has left the company after many years to pursue new challenges in the future. His responsibilities will henceforth be reorganized within the new business distribution plan:

Axel Kiefer, in addition to his existing responsibilities as Head of the Competence Center Materials Handling, will also be in charge of Coperion’s business with large high-performance compounding systems for the polyolefin industry.
Thomas Kehl will continue to be responsible for the Competence Center Service. In addition, he will be in charge of business with small to medium size high-performance compounding and extrusion machines for the plastics, food and pharmaceutical industries as well as for special applications.

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Günter Bachmann, Chairman of the Executive Board, will continue to be responsible for the Corporate Shared Services with its various central functions, such as Human Resources, Controlling & Finance, IT.

The streamlined organization reflected in the new business distribution plan represents Coperion’s adaption to the changing market conditions.

Photo: The Executive Board of Coperion GmbH: Axel Kiefer, Günter Bachmann (Chairman) and Thomas Kehl.

Coperion GmbH, Stuttgart, Germany