Karlsruhe / Germany, 17.06.2014
Press Release
Karlsruhe / Germany, 17.06.2014
New faces at Romaco
Romaco strengthens international sales and service management – new offices opened in China and Russia
Following the successful acquisition of Kilian Tableting GmbH, the Romaco Group is continuing its expansion into Asia. The Group has launched into the new fiscal year with an extended portfolio and stronger market presence. During the last few months its international sales and service management activities have been reorganised and expanded. “Thanks to our excellent global team we can now convey a much more powerful message to our customers worldwide. By moving closer to them, we can focus even more sharply on their needs in future”, says Paulo Alexandre, CEO of the Romaco Group.
The international Romaco management team has simultaneously been strengthened with several new faces:
Carsten Strenger, CFO and COO, Romaco Group
Carsten Strenger was appointed Chief Financial Officer (CFO) and Chief Operations Officer (COO) of the Romaco Group in May 2013. Before joining Romaco he spent several years as Managing Director of the Alba Group and held various positions with increasing executive responsibility at Müller Weingarten, an engineering supplier in southern Germany, most recently as Vice President Operations.
Since April 2014, Mr. Strenger has shared the running of Romaco PharmatechnikGmbH, the operating unit of the Karlsruhe based Romaco Group, with Paulo Alexandre.
Peter Haider, Vice President Customer Service, Romaco Group
Peter Haider's extensive experience has been applied to Romaco's Equipment and Customer Service functions since April 2014. His primary task is to develop the Group's Customer Service across the various corporate sites and place it on an international footing. Haider's vast know-how in this area has been gained over the last fifteen years in a series of management positions at Voith Paper, where he was Director Business Development for Products & Services prior to joining the Romaco Group.
Charles E. Ravalli, General Manager, Romaco North America
Charles Ravalli assumed responsibility for all Romaco Group activities in North America (Romaco Inc., New Jersey) in November 2012. He can look back on thirty-six years of experience in the packaging industry, during which he has contributed crucial momentum to the business development of several different companies with his extraordinary abilities. He spent the preceding twenty-two years as CEO of Oystar USA and before that was President and CEO of Hassia USA.
Shu Liu, General Manager, Romaco China
Shu Liu has been running the Romaco Sales Office in Shanghai (China) ever since it opened in August 2013. She will play a decisive role as Romaco continues its growth trajectory in China with its own regional branch. Romaco's previous Chinese agent, Shanghai Rikihinbou Industry Co, Ltd., will be incorporated into the local Romaco organisation. During Shu Liu’s 17 years of experience in International Business-to-Business, she has had responsibility in varying positions, including Sales, Marketing and Business Development for varying companies including Stevenato and Schott. She has extensive experience in the pharmaceutical packaging industry in both Europe and Asia.
Romaco now has a new address in China:
Romaco International Trading (Shanghai) Co., Ltd
G 20, 22/F Tower 3, Jing An Kerry Centre
1228 Yan’an Road Middle
200040 Shanghai, China
Dmitry Voloshin, General Manager, Romaco Russia
Dmitry Voloshin, a proven expert in the pharmaceutical world, has been responsible for the Romaco Group's Russian activities since February 2014. His principal duties include the ongoing strategic development of the Russian market, lead generation, branding and marketing. Voloshin will continue to build up Romaco's business in the Russian Federation together with ECI Packaging Limited, a commercial agent which has a long history as a Romaco partner. With more than seventeen years of managerial experience in the Russian pharmaceutical and engineering industries as CEO of Pharmaplan and Pharmagroup, he is optimally equipped to take on this challenge.
Romaco now has a new address in Russia:
LOTTE Business Centre
Office No. 935, 9th Floor
Novinsky Blvd. 8
121099 Moscow, Russia
GerdHueffmann, Managing Director, Romaco Kilian
GerdHueffmann was appointed Managing Director of Kilian Tableting GmbH in the wake of the Romaco Group's formal takeover, with responsibility for sales of new machines and customer service. Prior to accepting this position at Kilian in September 2013 he accumulated extensive experience in international sales at Fette Compacting and Korsch AG, for example.
Jamal Mokaddam, Business Development Director Romaco Systems, Romaco Group
Jamal Mokaddam, an acknowledged pharmaceuticals expert, is another new face who joined Romaco in April 2014. Amongst other things, he acquired the experience necessary to strengthen and expand the Romaco sales network during his previous assignment at Optima Pharmamit, where he spent around five years as Sales Director India and South-East Asia. Prior to that he worked for seven years as Product Manager at OystarManesty (UK), where he gained deep insights into tableting processes.
Rolf Izsak, Project Engineering and R&D Coordination, Romaco Group
Rolf Izsak began his career in the packaging machinery industry at Siebler, in the days when it was still owner managed. He remained on the payroll of this leading manufacturer of heat-sealing machines, which became part of the Romaco Group in 1999, for sixteen years, including several as Production Manager with responsibility for heat-sealing technologies. Prior to rejoining Romaco in 2013 he held various managerial positions at IWK Verpackungstechnik GmbH and Mediseal GmbH, where he was in charge of blister packaging machine design.
The Romaco Group
Romaco is a leading global supplier of Processing and Packaging equipment, predominantly for the pharmaceutical industry. Divided into two business areas, Tableting and Packaging, the company develops engineered system solutions for the pharmaceutical market, but also supplies the cosmetics, food and chemical markets. Romaco operates from three European locations with the headquarters in Karlsruhe, Germany. The company serves the multiple industries through a total of seven brands: The Packaging product lines Noack, Siebler, Bosspak, Macofar, Promatic and Unipac are manufactured in Karlsruhe, Germany and Bologna, Italy. The Tableting product line Kilian is produced in Cologne, Germany. Romaco’s product portfolio includes Primary and Secondary packaging, Aseptic liquid/powder filling, and Tablet press technologies. Over 12,000 Romaco installations are currently in operation in more than 180 countries. The company’s worldwide customer base is supplied and supported by over 450 highly skilled and committed employees.
In 2014 the Romaco Group was voted by “Wirtschaftswoche”, the prestigious German business weekly as one of Germany’s best 50 innovators among small and medium-sized enterprises. In this corporate benchmarking contest, Romaco was named runner-up in the “Process and Packaging Machinery” category. In the “Pharmaceutical Machinery” segment, the Group was awarded first prize.
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