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ABB names Björn Rosengren
as CEO
Björn Rosengren, President and CEO of
Sandvik, will leave the company as of 1
February 2020. He will join ABB on February
1, 2020 as Chief Executive Officer
and succeed CEO, Peter Voser, in this
role on March 1, 2020. At that time
Peter Voser will revert to his position at
ABB solely as Chairman of the Board.
»Björn Rosengren has, since he joined
Sandvik in November 2015, established
Herbert Eibensteiner (right) takes
over from Wolfgang Eder.
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Wolfgang Eder hands
chairmanship of the Management
Board to Herbert Eibensteiner
At the Annual General Meeting, Herbert
Eibensteiner took over as the Chairman of
the Management Board of voestalpine AG
from Wolfgang Eder, who served in this
position for more than 15 years. Herbert
Eibensteiner is an internationally experienced
manager, who started his career at
voestalpine as a plant engineer in 1989
after completing his degree in mechanical
engineering/business management. He
held numerous executive positions in the
company before being appointed to the
Management Board and simultaneously
the Head of the Metal Forming Division in
DVS General Manager
Dr. Boecking on the Board of
Directors of IIW
The 72 nd Annual Assembly of the International
Institute of Welding (IIW) and its
subsequent conference was particularly
significant for DVS, the German Welding
Society, this year because the DVS General
Manager Dr. Roland Boecking was elected
as a new member of the Board of Directors
of IIW. Germany is now represented by
three members in the International Institute
of Welding to which Professor Thomas
2012. Eibensteiner’s switch to the Steel
Division in October 2014 made him the
Head of the Group’s biggest revenue earner.
»I look forward to continuing to
further develop voestalpine’s successful
business model in a consistent way. With
a focus on innovation, internationalization,
and value-added growth as well as our
commitment to sustainability, we will continue
our journey towards a technology
group,« Eibensteiner stated. Wolfgang
Eder, the departing CEO, worked for the
voestalpine Group for 41 years, being
Chairman of its Management Board for
more than 15 years. Under his leadership,
the voestalpine Group developed from an
Austrian steel company into a global technology
group.
Böllinghaus, Vice-President of the Federal
Institute for Materials Research and Testing
(BAM) in Berlin, and Dipl.-Ing. Christian
Ahrens, International Welding Consultant,
Duisburg, already belong. Dr. Boecking
considers it to be an honour to be appointed
to the Board of Directors. He is looking
forward to the forthcoming tasks in IIW.
»The next months will certainly become
intensive and exciting,« said the DVS
General Manager. The headquarters of IIW
will be relocated from Paris/France to
Genoa/Italy on January 1, 2020. Dr. Luca
Costa from the Italian Welding Society is
Björn Rosengren
Copyright: ABB
a solid decentralized business model for
the company and made the organization
more flexible and efficient,« says
Johan Molin, Chairman of the Board for
Sandvik. »This has not been an easy
decision. Sandvik is a great company
with a lot of future potential and I will
continue to lead the organization with
a strong commitment until end of January,«
says Björn Rosengren.
becoming the new CEO of IIW and resigned
from his office as the Treasurer of IIW
for this purpose. The current CEO of IIW,
Dr. Cecile Mayer from the French Welding
Institute, was thanked for her many years
of commendable activity.
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