German owners L. Possehl & Co have appointed a new head for manroland Web Systems, allowing their chairman Uwe Lüders to withdraw from business operations.
The next stage in the press maker’s post-administration era sees 52-year-old Eckhard Hörner-Marass appointed managing director – or spokesman of the management board – from September 15.
Uwe Lüders, who is chairman of Possehl’s executive board, will remain managing director of manroland.
The company says Hörner-Marass has more than 25 years of experience in leading positions of the engineering industry. The Master of Engineering started his career in 1986 at the C. Haushahn Group. In 1995 he moved to a role on the management board of Jenbacher Energiesysteme, and four years later was appointed to the management board of Zeppelin Baumaschinen. Since 2002 he has been managing director and since 2005, spokesman of Holzma Plattenaufteiltechnik, part of the 100 million Euros Homag Group.
Lüders says he is glad to have found an entrepreneurial managing director to lead and bring forward the company “together with its established management team”.
In the first fiscal year after insolvency period ended, manroland web systems GmbH “will meet expectations in spite of a difficult market environment as far as sales and profits are concerned”. The company acquired the factory premises from the insolvency administrator, thus affirming its long-term commitment to the Augsburg site.
manroland web systems now has about 1500 employees worldwide and sales of about 300 million Euros.