CFO Wienands stays on at Messer
(PresseBox) - Hans-Gerd Wienands (46) has renewed his contract as Chief Financial Officer with Bad Soden-based industrial gases specialist Messer for a further five years. On 13 November, the Supervisory Board of Messer, led by Jürgen Heraeus, approved an extension until 2019. Hans-Gerd Wienands has held the post of Chief Financial Officer at Messer since the end of 2004. His biggest challenge was returning the Messer Group and the Messer Eutectic Castolin (MEC) Group into the sole possession of the Messer family in 2004 and 2005. Entering the US private placements financing market significantly expanded outside capital and considerably reduced the two privately run companies? reliance on the banks. Last year, Messer generated consolidated sales of over one billion euros. In 2012 the sales of MEC was 567 million euros.
Messer is the largest privately managed industrial gases specialist and is active in more than 30 countries in Europe and Asia, as well as Peru, Algeria and New Zealand, with a total of over 60 operating companies. Its international activities are managed from Frankfurt am Main, whilst management of core technical functions ? logistics, engineering, production and applications engineering ? is undertaken from Krefeld. In 2012, 5,364 employees generated consolidated sales of ? 1,088 billion.
From acetylene to xenon, the Messer Group has one of the most diverse product portfolios on the market - it produces industrial gases such as oxygen, nitrogen, argon, carbon dioxide, hydrogen, helium, shielding gases for welding, specialty gases, medical gases and many different gas mixtures.
The Messer Group has state-of-the-art research and competence centers in which it develops applied technologies for the use of gases in almost every sector of industry, in food technology and environmental technology, medicine as well as research and science.
Messer is the largest privately managed industrial gases specialist and is active in more than 30 countries in Europe and Asia, as well as Peru, Algeria and New Zealand, with a total of over 60 operating companies. Its international activities are managed from Frankfurt am Main, whilst management of core technical functions ? logistics, engineering, production and applications engineering ? is undertaken from Krefeld. In 2012, 5,364 employees generated consolidated sales of ? 1,088 billion.
From acetylene to xenon, the Messer Group has one of the most diverse product portfolios on the market - it produces industrial gases such as oxygen, nitrogen, argon, carbon dioxide, hydrogen, helium, shielding gases for welding, specialty gases, medical gases and many different gas mixtures.
The Messer Group has state-of-the-art research and competence centers in which it develops applied technologies for the use of gases in almost every sector of industry, in food technology and environmental technology, medicine as well as research and science.
Datum: 13.11.2013 - 15:30 Uhr
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