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US' Optima Group's nonwoven biz unit to be led by Dr Stefan Koenig

28 Feb '23
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Dr Stefan Koenig. Pic: Optima Group
Dr Stefan Koenig. Pic: Optima Group

Optima Group, a leading manufacturer of packaging and filling machines, has announced that effective March 1, 2023, Dr Stefan Koenig, the managing director of Optima packaging group GmbH, will take over responsibility for the Optima Nonwovens business unit. Koenig will take over this responsibility from Hans Buehler, CEO of the Optima Group, the company said in a press release.

"With this decision, we are enhancing intensive cooperation between all units that supply machines and services for the consumer goods market. Dr Stefan Koenig can draw on a wealth of specialist and management knowledge. The positions and tasks of the managing directors of Optima Nonwovens, Dr Georg Pfeifer and Oliver Rebstock, will remain unchanged," explained Hans Buehler.

Dr Koenig has been a member of the Optima management board since March 2021 and is currently responsible for the consumer and life science business units as well as corporate sustainability. Before joining Optima, he held senior management positions for over 20 years, including four years spent in Asia, and was the CEO of a globally active company.

Fibre2Fashion News Desk (DP)

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