{"id":28629,"date":"2019-11-15T16:34:18","date_gmt":"2019-11-15T15:34:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/?p=28629"},"modified":"2019-11-18T09:37:17","modified_gmt":"2019-11-18T08:37:17","slug":"burkhard-balz-is-the-new-senior-vice-president-automation-systems-at-lenze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/en\/burkhard-balz-ist-neuer-senior-vice-president-automation-systems-bei-lenze\/","title":{"rendered":"New Senior Vice President Automation Systems at Lenze"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Burkhard Balz (55) has been Senior Vice President Automation Systems at global automation specialist Lenze since 1 November 2019. With Balz, a successful manager with international leadership experience joins the Group.<\/p>\n<p>In this newly created position, he heads the <strong>Systems segment<\/strong> and will the <strong>Growth in the systems business<\/strong> further advance the company. With the appointment of this recognised industry expert, Lenze is underlining its position as a leading <strong>System provider for machine automation<\/strong> and at the same time sets the course for an even stronger market orientation.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201eLenze has more than 70 years of experience in machine automation and a system portfolio that enables us to offer our customers everything they need for modern machines from a single source. Thanks to the consistent integration of automation with drive technology and the in-depth industry expertise of our sales and application engineers, we are making a significant contribution to considerably simplifying engineering and reducing overall costs. All in all, these are excellent prerequisites for my future tasks, which I am very much looking forward to.\u201c<br \/>\n<strong>Burkhard Balz, <\/strong>Senior Vice President Automation Systems<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Balz was previously active as <strong>Vice President Sales and Marketing Power &amp; Energy\/Industry EMEA<\/strong> at the US industrial group <strong>SPX Flow<\/strong>. He previously held various positions in the <strong>Top management<\/strong> international industrial companies, among others at the<strong> Eaton Corporation<\/strong> and with <strong>Rockwell<\/strong> <strong>Automation<\/strong>. He has many years of experience and extensive <strong>Experience in drive technology and systems business<\/strong>. He also brings comprehensive <strong>Expertise<\/strong> especially in the areas of sales, marketing and business development. Balz has a <strong>Diploma in General European Management<\/strong> and is a state-certified technician specialising in data processing.<\/p><div class=\"packa-in-post-alle packa-entity-placement\" style=\"text-align: center;\" id=\"packa-112985905\"><div id=\"packa-4187293572\"><a data-no-instant=\"1\" href=\"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/en\/newsletter\/\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"a2t-link\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"PJ Self-promotion English 03\"><!--noptimize--><img src=\"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/PJ-Eigenwerbung-English-03.png\" alt=\"\"  srcset=\"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/PJ-Eigenwerbung-English-03.png 840w, https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/PJ-Eigenwerbung-English-03-300x75.png 300w, https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/PJ-Eigenwerbung-English-03-768x192.png 768w, https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/PJ-Eigenwerbung-English-03-18x5.png 18w, https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/PJ-Eigenwerbung-English-03-332x83.png 332w, https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/PJ-Eigenwerbung-English-03-664x166.png 664w, https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/PJ-Eigenwerbung-English-03-688x172.png 688w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 840px) 100vw, 840px\" width=\"840\" height=\"210\"  style=\" max-width: 100%; height: auto;\" \/><!--\/noptimize--><\/a><\/div><\/div>\n<p><em>Source: Lenze<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Burkhard Balz has been Senior Vice President Automation Systems at global automation specialist Lenze since 1 November 2019.","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":28630,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"__cvm_playback_settings":[],"__cvm_video_id":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_title":"","csco_display_header_overlay":false,"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_location_hash":"","csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[114,112],"tags":[43,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-28629","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-aus-den-unternehmen-news","8":"category-personen","9":"tag-aus-den-unternehmen","10":"tag-automatisieren-und-robotik","11":"cs-entry","12":"cs-video-wrap"},"acf":[],"vimeo_video":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28629\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}