Sumitomo (SHI) Demag strategically aligned its management structure and expanded its management team, effective 1 October 2018. A new member of the management team, Martin Fischer, will be responsible for Operations, which entails Production and Purchasing. A certified production expert, Fischer joined the company on 1 March 2018 and will now be advancing the modernisation and future alignment of production processes. Heads of Production Bernd Troger (Schwaig facility) and Frank Stengel (Wiehe facility) will report to him.
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Sumitomo (SHI) Demag expands management team. From left to right: Hideki Kuroiwa (Chief Collaboration Officer), Paolo Zirondoli (General Manager Sales), Martin Fischer (General Manager Operations & Supply Chain), Dieter Schuster (Manager Quality Management), Gerd Liebig (CEO) |
Paolo Zirondoli, General Manager Sales, will oversee the company’s global sales activities. He will be head of all sales teams of all subsidiaries and global representations.
CEO Gerd Liebig will also be responsible for Engineering and Quality Management with immediate effect, which puts him in charge of the overall organisation of Sumitomo (SHI) Demag. Dieter Schuster has been appointed Head of Quality Management, reporting directly to Liebig. His main focus will be on the improvement of customer-oriented quality management and the optimised integration of quality in engineering and production.
Hideki Kuroiwa was appointed Chief Collaboration Officer and remains a member of the management team. He is tasked with special activities of outstanding corporate importance, such as the company’s future strategic alignment and the advancement of corporate ties with Sumitomo in Japan.
About Sumitomo (SHI) Demag Plastics Machinery GmbH
Sumitomo (SHI) Demag has shaped the development of the plastics industry from its very beginning. As a specialist for injection moulding machines for plastics processing, Sumitomo (SHI) Demag and its Japanese parent company are leading the industry.
The global development and production network of Sumitomo Heavy Industries and Sumitomo (SHI) Demag is comprised of four facilities in Japan, Germany and China with more than 3,000 employees. The product portfolio includes all-electric, hydraulic and hybrid injection moulding machines with clamping forces of between 180 and 15.000 kN. With more than 115,000 installed machines, Sumitomo (SHI) Demag is present in important global markets.
