Extrusion International 6-2016

12 Extrusion International 6/2016 INDUSTRY NEWS Service center in Poland With the extrusion capacity currently installed in Poland, it has advanced to become one of the largest European manufacturers of plastic profiles. Both in the field of window profile and technical profile extrusion, the Greiner Extrusion Group is experiencing increasing demand for services, spare and wear parts, and process optimizations to further in- crease efficiency. The Greiner Extrusion Group now offers all services for such customer needs locally in Poland through its own service and distribution subsidiary that it has estab- lished there. The central location of the new site of Greiner Extrusion Sp. z o.o. in Teresin, near Warsaw, provides an excellent home base for the direct support of all extrusion companies throughout Poland. “We are building on close personal con- tact with our customers and fast on-site support. Our Polish staff are extrusion specialists with many years of experience in the industry and provide our customers with support in the language of the country. That increases quality and ef- ficiency when clearing technical details, and ultimately en- sures better results for the customer,” explains Regional Sales Director Christian Nistelberger. The company manage- ment of the Greiner Extrusion Group worked towards estab- lishing a service subsidiary in Poland right from the outset. “For sustainably higher profile quality, greater machine availability and continuously increasing efficiency, you need a reliable and competent local partner. It is our goal to be that kind of partner for all profile extruders in Poland with our team of experts,” declares Gerhard Ohler, CEO of the Greiner Extrusion Group. www.greiner-extrusion-group.com New Generation in the BEKUM Group Dipl.-Ing. Michael Mehnert (34), youngest son of the com- pany’s founder GottfriedMehnert, joined the family company in various functions after successfully studying mechanical en- gineering in Aachen. In spring 2016, Michael Mehnert was ap- pointed Managing Director of BEKUMMaschinenfabrik Trais- mauer GesmbH, with the aim of supporting the long-standing Managing Director Dipl.-Ing. MBA Johannes Schwarz in the management and development of the company. Michael Mehnert recently assumed company shares of the BE- KUM Group, so that he now functions as shareholder, beside www.bekum.com Dipl.-Ing. Michael Mehnert GottfriedMehnert, thus allowing the company to remain fully in family ownership. Gottfried Mehnert founded BEKUM 55 years ago and has built up the company group. His inventions (such as ring surface calibration, dual machines, advances in co-extrusion) have crucially shaped the extrusion blowing industry and are currently used in almost all blow-moulded articles in the world, for which he received numerous awards (including the Federal Cross of Merit, Plastics Hall-of-Fame Lifetime Award). The new generation in the BEKUM Group was introduced with the share transfer to Michael Mehnert, who would like to preserve the qualities of the company while also setting new directions: “Our common cause is to lead our medium-size family business and its more than 300 employees into a successful future. At the same time, our production relo- cation to Traismauer was an important step inmaking BEKUM even more competitive. Other steps will follow as we contin- ue to invest in the company and in innovations. I see it as my job to conserve the qualities of BEKUM while simultaneously bringing fresh momentum to the company.” Jerzy Teodor Stachowiak, Area Sales Manager Poland, Gerhard Ohler, CEO Greiner Extrusion Group (Picture: © Greiner Extrusion Group)