At the constituent meeting of the Advisory Board of interpack, the world's leading trade fair for processing & packaging, the Chairman and his two deputies were confirmed in their positions. The Advisory Board thus sends a clear signal of continuity and emphasises the importance of interpack's close ties with the packaging industry.

Benjamin Bösch has been appointed to a newly created role of Sales Director for Koenig & Bauer Durst, a global market leader of single pass digital sheet-fed press systems and software systems for the folding carton and corrugated industry, in a strategic move to capitalize on growing folding carton and corrugated markets that are ripe for digital transformation.

Hans Parvikoski has been appointed Chief Financial Officer at Eficode. In his new role, he is also a member of the Group Management Team. Hans Parvikoski has a broad finance background in IT services companies, both private-equity-owned and stock-listed. His extensive career as a CFO, spanning over 15 years, has primarily been focused on the IT and technology services sector.

The recipient of the 2024 “AWA Annual Release Liner Industry Leadership Award” is Robyn Buma, announced 21 March 2024 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands at the AWA Annual Release Liner Industry Conference dinner hosted by AWA Alexander Watson Associates and Mondi Group.

The award, initiated by AWA in 2016, was created to acknowledge and recognize individuals involved in the release liner industry who have played a leadership role for the betterment of the industry, and provides peer and industry recognition for demonstrated dedication, service, and leadership to drive growth, innovation, and continuing success of the release liner industry.

Hybrid Software Group has announced that it has appointed Steven Steenhaut as Director of Marketing. In this role, Steenhaut will coordinate group marketing activities across the company’s six business units, building a unified effort and market presence. Steven will be based in HYBRID Software’s office in Gent, Belgium.

Roland DGA Corporation, a leading provider of wide-format inkjet printers, vinyl cutters, 3D milling machines, dental mills, and other advanced digital technologies, has announced six important personnel changes across its leadership, product management, and service teams.

Dr. Fritz Oesterle reaches the age limit and leaves the Suvervisory Board

Ferdinand Rüesch plans to enter into retirement
Search for suitable successors already initiated

Toray Textiles Central Europe s.r.o., announced that Günter Schmid has been appointed Technical Person Responsible (R&D – Technical Sales) with effect from January 1st, 2024. He has more than 30 years of experience in waterless offset printing, which he now brings to Toray's European arm.

Prof. Dr. Frank Richter succeeds Dr. Matthias L. Wolfgruber

Ruud Joosten new member of the Supervisory Board
The specialty chemicals group ALTANA has a new Chairman of the Supervisory Board. Prof. Dr. Frank Richter, who has been a member of the Supervisory Board of ALTANA AG since May 2020, has been elected to this position.

Kongsberg Precision Cutting Systems (Kongsberg PCS) has underlined its commitment to developing advances in automation with the appointment of Nimil David as its new Product Manager for Automation and Robotics. Based at the Kongsberg PCS production site in Brno, Czech Republic, Nimil will use his deep knowledge and technical expertise to achieve the company’s goal of empowering customers to maximize efficiency and productivity through automation.

"With Lacerda's entry, our executive team is further strengthened with a new member bringing 30 years of international experience to support the next chapter of the self-adhesives business growth, where we intend to keep expanding our global footprint and leading position. On the other hand, Capussotti will take on a new threefold challenge: to accelerate our growth in RFID, to lead ESG and Energy Transition strategy, and to drive the newly created group Innovation function," comments CEO Marco Nespolo.

• Steffen Kroner to assume responsibility for Finance, Controlling, IT and Human Resource Management

• Gerhard Böhm, Managing Director Sales and After Sales, to hand over the baton later this year
• Partner Renate Keinath to move to the Advisory Board