Uhlmann Pac-Systeme GmbH & Co. KG is announcing a change in management as of 1 April 2019. Michael Mrachacz will take over from Siegfried Drost, the previous Managing Director Sales, who will leave the company on 31 March 2019 for reasons of age.
Mrachacz, 50, has been responsible for the Customer Support & Services business unit at Uhlmann since 2014 and has been a member of the management team in this role for five years. During his time at Uhlmann, he brought together all after-sales activities in one business unit, very successfully expanded the track & trace business and increased the business unit's turnover by over 60 per cent.
„My goal is to continue Uhlmann's successful growth. This is only possible with a very high level of customer satisfaction. That is why I am passionately committed to ensuring that we remain close to our customers and that we organise sales and service strategically and in a market- and customer-oriented manner,“ says Michael Mrachacz.
Tobias Uhlmann, Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Uhlmann, is delighted with the succession plan that has been found: „With Michael Mrachacz, we can fill this important position from within our own ranks and thus ensure a seamless transition. In him, we have found an outstanding successor who I regard as an enthusiastic, strong Leadership personality who is hands-on, creative and motivating. We are very much looking forward to continuing our collaboration and wish him a good start in his new role.“
Successful work
The graduate industrial engineer Siegfried Drost has been with Uhlmann since 1994. In 1997, he became Managing Director Sales at the provider of complete solutions for the packaging of pharmaceuticals. During this time, the company was able to increase its incoming orders from 45 million euros (1994) to around 440 million euros in the Uhlmann Group (2018/2019). The company emphasises that Siegfried Drost played a key role in shaping this development, as he greatly expanded Uhlmann's international business with the establishment of numerous sales and service subsidiaries and was one of the main drivers behind the formation of the strategic alliance between the two companies. Excellence United was. The companies Bausch+Ströbel, Fette Compacting, Glatt, Harro Höfliger and Uhlmann pool their expertise under the umbrella of the alliance and offer their customers solutions for the entire value chain of medical device and pharmaceutical production.
„We would like to thank Siegfried Drost for his great commitment and vision, which has made Uhlmann's successful growth in this form possible. He has embodied Uhlmann's values at their best for over 25 years: strong, open, reliable. We sincerely wish him all the best for the next stage of his life,“ explains Tobias Uhlmann.
