Desma appoints Siegfried Köhler as Managing Director Sales & Service

Fridingen, Germany – Salzgitter AG, as the sole shareholder of Klöckner DESMA Elastomertechnik GmbH, has appointed Mr. Siegfried Köhler as Managing Director Sales & Service as of October 1. Together with Dr. Michael Zaun, who has been Managing Director for the technical and operational areas since September 1, 2022, Siegfried Köhler will lead the company and with him assume responsibility for the four subsidiaries and thus around five hundred employees on three continents.

Siegfried Köhler held responsible positions at Piovan for years, where he es-tablished sales and service subsidiaries in Austria, the Czech Republic and Hungary, among others. He then worked for well-known companies such as Wittmann Battenfeld and Sumitomo Demag, and most recently as Co-CEO in the Frimo Group. Siegfried Köhler is a practitioner and technician with many years of international sales experience in the fields of injection molding ma-chines, special machines, and automation.

Klöckner DESMA Elastomertechnik GmbH is a global manufacturer of injec-tion molding machines, mold- and automation technology as well as com-plete production cells for the injection molding of silicone and rubber parts for all industries.

Siegfried Köhler is looking forward to working with the team in Fridingen an der Donau as well as with the other sites:

“The entire industry is currently operating in a very volatile environment. This is giving rise to many new opportunities, which we will exploit together. Once again, it will be necessary to represent and map work processes and machine performance as transparently as possible on a digital level.

With my many years of global sales experience in peripheral equipment and machines & systems for the plastics processing industry, I am very pleased to be able to lead the company into the future with immediate effect together with Dr. Zaun.”