Michael Müller took over the role of Global Sales Director Packaging at Kautex Maschinenbau in April. With the graduate engineer, the company has filled another key position in its global management team.
The recruitment is part of a far-reaching change process, which, in addition to the realignment of the business segments, also includes a programme initiated last year. Restructuring of the sales organisation includes.
Kautex, one of the leading system providers in blow moulding technology, had already started to expand its automotive division in 2019. expand the Packaging division and increasingly offer customised solutions. In order to optimally leverage the market potential of both segments, the company also had the Sales organisation converted to a divisional model.
„The sale of complex, customer-optimised machines and systems requires a high level of product and market knowledge and a holistic understanding of the various customer requirements and needs. Michael Müller has the best qualifications for this.“
Andreas Lichtenauer, CSO Kautex
As Mechanical engineer specialising in construction technology Müller has excellent technical knowledge of mechanical engineering. In the course of his professional career, he has also acquired in-depth knowledge and insights into PET production, most recently as a Sales manager at a leading supplier of injection moulding technology. He knows the international packaging market very well and has valuable contacts here.
With the assumption of the position Global Sales Director Packaging Müller has come full circle. After graduating in 1995, he took up his first position as a design engineer at Kautex. He is now looking forward all the more to being able to contribute the experience he has gained in the meantime from a dynamically and rapidly changing market environment and an application-centred customer focus to the Kautex Maschinenbau team. „The Plastics industry faces major social, technological and economic challenges. As a system provider, we have the opportunity to Important part of the customer's value chain from the granulate grain to the finished product,“ says Michael Müller.
Source: Kautex
