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As of March 1, 2024, Andreas Wellmann will join the Board of Management of Voith Hydro with responsibility for the Projects business.

ABB announced that the Board of Directors will propose Johan Forssell and Mats Rahmström as new members for election at the company’s Annual General Meeting (AGM) on March 21, 2024.

The Board of Directors of Atlas Copco AB has appointed Vagner Rego as the new President and CEO of Atlas Copco Group, effective May 1st, 2024. He will replace Mats Rahmström who has, as previously communicated, requested to leave his position after successfully leading the Group since 2017.

The gearbox specialist Neugart, headquartered in Kippenheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany is responding to the challenges of the international mechanical engineering industry by adjusting its management structure: for the first time in the company’s almost one-hundred-year history, Swen Herrmann and Holger Obergföll are the company’s two managing directors who are not members of the owner families.

At the upcoming Annual Shareholder’s Meeting on 17 April 2024, the GF Board of Directors is to propose Annika Paasikivi for election as new board member.

Endress+Hauser has completed the announced change at the top of the Group: Dr Peter Selders has taken over as CEO of the Swiss specialist for measurement technology and automation solutions.

In order to intensify economic relations with African countries, position the continent more firmly in the focus of German economic and foreign policy and shape efficient cooperation with Africa beyond development aid, Oliver Hermes was appointed to the board of the Africa Association and the Sub-Saharan Africa Initiative of German Business (SAFRI) in September 2023.

Atlas Copco Group has appointed Christina Malmberg Hägerstrand as its new Media Relations Manager.

HNP Mikrosysteme, headquartered in Schwerin, Germany, is pleased to announce the appointment of Suzanne Coleman Wilhelmsen as Head of Business Development for North America.

Dr Klaus Endress, CEO of the Endress+Hauser Group for many years and president of the Supervisory Board since 2014, is celebrating his 75th birthday. As previously announced, he will end his active involvement in the family-owned business at the end of the year. However, he will remain closely associated with the Group as a shareholder and chairman of the Endress Family Council.