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GEMÜ Gebrüder Müller Apparatebau GmbH & Co. KG is reorganizing its company management team. Graduate industrial engineer Matthias Fick will be appointed as Managing Director of Global Operations within GEMÜ Germany’s company management team on 1st July 2022. This appointment will further strengthen the company management team, comprising Gert Müller, Managing Partner, and Stephan Müller, Managing Director.

Freudenberg Sealing Technologies today announced that Dr. Theodore Duclos, Chief Technology Officer (CTO), has elected to retire from the company on June 30 after more than 25 years of service. Dr. Duclos, who is recognized for championing innovative approaches to technology and manufacturing processes, has agreed to continue in an advisory role with Freudenberg’s e-Power Systems Business Group.

The board of directors of Franklin Electric Co., Inc. has elected Chris Villavarayan to be a director of the Company effective May 6, 2022.

After three years as Chairman of the German Eastern Business Association, Oliver Hermes, President and CEO of the Wilo Group, is stepping down from his honorary post effective 1 June 2022.

Two new Supervisory Board members were elected at today’s Annual General Meeting of GEA Group Aktiengesellschaft: Jörg Kampmeyer, Managing Partner of Gebr. Knauf KG, and Dr. Jens Riedl, Investment Partner at Groupe Bruxelles Lambert (GBL).

Mika Kulju, who until recently was the President of ABB Drive Products division, has been announced as the new President of Danfoss Drives, succeeding Vesa Laisi who will retire from Danfoss after eight years as the President of Danfoss Drives.

EKKI announced the appointment of Dr. Sujit Banerji, Emeritus Professor, WMG, University of Warwick, UK as chief advisor.

In an extraordinary meeting yesterday, the Supervisory Board of GEA Group Aktiengesellschaft approved an application for former BDI president Professor Dieter Kempf (69) to be appointed by the district court as member of the Supervisory Board.

The Hydraulic Institute (HI), the largest association of pump manufacturers and suppliers to the pump industry in North America and the global authority on pumps and pumping systems, installed new leadership during the 2022 Annual Conference.

Atlas Copco has appointed Amanda Billner as its new Media Relations Manager.