Thiemo Hagedorn

Since the end of September 2013, Hermann Koch GmbH and its sister company Kunststofftechnik Straufhain GmbH specialized in the manufacture of jars, sticks and plastic bottles is under the direction of a managing shareholder. Dr. Eng. Thiemo Hagedorn took over the shares of the two companies in September 2013.

An impressive machine pool!

It may be recalled that the German company has a fleet of 80 injection machines ranging from 25 tonnes to 320 tonnes, including six electric presses and three bi-injection machines (all of them Arburg), 15 blow moulding machines including a Magic four prints, which can produce 1,200 bottles per hour, 10 screen printing machines and 8 hot stamping machines. Not to mention the 7 compression machines for bakelite products.

Roland Lacher

Mr. Lacher started his professional career in plastic machinery construction and founded in 1995, along with financial investors, Singulus Technologies GmbH, which is listed as a public company since the end of 1997 at the German stock exchange in Frankfurt. Mr. Lacher directed Singulus Technologies over 12 years as Chairman of the Board and was subsequently nominated for a further 5 years as Chairman of the Supervisory Board. Within that time, the company grew to a world leading business in the vacuum thin film technology and market leader for development and production of optical data storage media; CD, DVD, Blue-ray.