Personalities
Management change at Swiss Schoeller Textile
After 48 years with Swiss Schoeller Textile and 18 years as its managing director Hans-Jürgen Hübner, graduated textile engineer, is passing the helm to Siegfried Winkelbeiner and he will serve as new CEO of the company.
Siegfried Winkelbeiner, chemist and a former Ciba man, will assume his new responsibilities – he has been almost for one year COO – as of April 2012.
Hans-Jürgen Hübner is CEO of the last year founded Schoeller Medical AG and with the acquisition of an external chemical laboratory he will be involved in further enhancement of these new activities and at the same serve on the board of directors of Schoeller Textile.
Siegfried Winkelbeiner will extend the worldwide customer relationship and expects that the Schoeller team is continuing to provide value added sustainable products for the benefit of customers and he is also an advocate to keep innovation on Swiss soil. He will focus the company on key markets to empower a profitable future for the company.