Oct 22, 2013. /Lesprom Network/. Klaus Huneke, Chairman of the Management Board (CEO), will step into early retirement at the end of this year for health reasons. In order to ensure the greatest possible continuity Managing Director Peter Michels will add Personnel to his existing Sales and Marketing responsibilities, and will assume the position of Speaker of the Management Board, as the company said in the press release received by Lesprom Network.

As successor to Mr. Huneke in the fields of Production and Technology, Mr. Ralf Coenen joined the company. Dr. Georg Schmidt will continue to act as Managing Director with responsibility for Finance and Controlling.

Heimbach Group provides the fundamentals for production and process technology – Clothing is at the heart of every paper machine, filter media are the core of all filtering equipment. Unique technical textiles are used in special applications.