Schoeller Textil announces new CEO
30/03/2012
Textile chemist Siegfried Winkelbeiner will take over the role in April from Hans-Jürgen Hübner, who, after 48 years with Schoeller, is stepping away from the position and into a new role himself.
Hans-Jürgen Hübner is a textile engineer who began his career at Schoeller in 1964. For 17 years he was responsible for the technical area, before taking over marketing and sales in 1982. From 1994 until March 2012 he served as chief executive. The company says that at its general meeting on 28 June, 2012, Hans-Jürgen Hübner will be elected to the board of administration of the Schoeller Textil Group. In addition, he will also oversee innovation at Schoeller as well as the newly established company Schoeller Medical AG.
“His spirit, unconventional ideas and enthusiasm will continue to influence and enrich the culture of Schoeller and the company will still benefit from his enormous knowledge of textiles and his wide-ranging global network,” the company said of the outgoing chief executive. He said himself that he was determined to put Schoeller Medical, founded last year, “among the frontrunners in the
health megatrend”.
Siegfried Winkelbeiner, incoming chief executive of Schoeller Textil AG, brings many years of experience in the chemical industry from his previous roles at Ciba in Basel, where he began with his apprenticeship as a laboratory technician on the textile side of the business. His career took him to South Africa and Thailand for many years. Until 2008 when he returned to Basel, he held various positions in the international organisation of Ciba Specialty Chemicals and was a member of the company’s global leadership board.
From 2008 onwards, he was stationed in Hungary where he supervised the expansion of Ciba in central and eastern Europe. Ciba was taken over by BASF in 2009.
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