To improve organisation and secure global growth, German plastics processor Röchling (Mannheim; www.roechling.de) is changing the organisation and management of the High-Performance Plastics division. With effect from 1 September 2015, Rüdiger Keinberger will be appointed to the board of management of Haren-based Röchling Engineering Plastics.

With this position, he will take over the responsibility for the business units Machined Components and Composites. Up to this point, he has held the position of managing director of the Austrian subsidiary Röchling Leripa Papertech (Oepping) and director of the business unit Machined Components. His tasks in the BU will be taken over by Heinz Dirksen as director sales and marketing and Dietmar Telgenkämper as director production and engineering. Peter Eckerstorfer will become managing director of Röchling Leripa Papertech.

Furthermore, Lewis H. Carter will assume the position of director business unit Medical Plastics, effective 1 September. Röchling is taking this step to promote the development of the strategically important field of Life Science Industry. Carter is transferring his responsibility for the production and sales of thermoplastic semi-finished products in North America to the business unit Thermoplastics. This means, starting on 1 January 2016, Röchling will be bringing together all activities concerning thermoplastic semi-finished products in a single division managed by Franz Lübbers as director sales and marketing and Ludger Vehring, director production and engineering.

Mustafa Altintas is responsible for the production of high-performance plastics of Röchling Sustaplast at the site in Lahnstein / Germany as BU director production and Engineering.

In 2014, the High-Performance Plastics division posted sales of EUR 678.2m (see Plasteurope.com of 26.05.2015).