Gurit appoints new general manager
By IBI Magazine
Swiss composites specialist Gurit has appointed Rudolf Gerber as general manager of its Wind Energy business, effective August 1, 2008.
Gerber has spent the last six years as CEO and delegate of the Board of Directors at Armstrong Metal Ceilings Group in St Gall, Switzerland. From 1995 to 2001, he was divisional manager at Alcan Airex, the European arm of global composites brand Alcan Composites Core Materials.
Gerber also has many years of international management and sales experience, having served as managing director at Schlatter Ltd in the UK and as area sales manager at Varian AG.
Founded in 1835, Gurit manufactures high-end composite materials such as fibre-reinforced prepregs, structural foam, gel coats, adhesives, resins and consumables as well as certain finished parts for the wind energy, transportation and marine markets. The company has production sites and offices in Switzerland, Germany, the UK, Canada, Spain, Denmark, Australia, New Zealand, the US, India and China.
Gurit has also revealed that its headquarters and general management of the Wind Energy business will be relocating to Oerlikon in Zürich by the end of May.
(7 May 2008)
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