H&K Industrieanlagen: Further General Manager appointed

Rehlingen, Germany, August 16, 2012. The Executive Partners of H&K have appointed Pierre Welsch as a third General Manager. Pierre Welsch will be responsible primarily for the area of finance.

The increasing growth of the company has led to growing financial requirements, especially with regard to international business and the financing of large-scale projects. These factors have therefore called the Executive Partners of the company to appoint a third General Manager next to Wolfgang Gerhard and Gerhart Hölzl. Pierre Welsch has gained a lot of experience in the steel industry and knows the H&K team very well from his previous assignments at Koch Transporttechnik GmbH and FLSmidth Wadgassen GmbH and from his work as a free-lance consultant. He has worked with numerous of his present colleagues for many years.

Fig. 1:Pierre Welsch

Mr. Welsch sees great potential for H&K: “The two years since the company was founded have been characterized by rapid growth. Now the task is to consolidate structures and establish processes that enable us to handle and implement large-scale projects for the future to the full satisfaction of our customers. An example of such large-scale projects is the new finishing line for railway rails up to 110 m in length which we are currently commissioning in Russia.”

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About H&K Industrieanlagen GmbH

H&K Industrieanlagen GmbH was established in 2010 by the company’s current Executive Partners who acquired the assets in a management buy-out of the business area “Rolling Mill Technology” from the Danish company FLSmidth. The company has its roots in the two companies Koch Transporttechnik GmbH and Hoestemberghe & Klütsch GmbH, which were both founded more than 60 years ago. Through this background, H&K has gained more than six decades of steel industry experience.

The company develops and provides complete solutions for rolling mills, from continuous casting through to the finish-rolled section or sheet. It specializes in customized solutions for both new plants and plant modernizations, which are supplied complete with automation, control and network systems and all ancillary equipment.

The range of products comprises of:

• rolling equipment:hot rolling stands for long products such as sections, special sections or steel bars

• conveying equipment:roller tables, skids, cooling beds, turnover and shifting devices,

• machining and finishing equipment forcutting, sawing, shearing, cooling and straightening.

H&K plans, designs, manufactures and supplies its plants on a turnkey basis, including erection and commissioning, customer training and service. The company currently has a workforce of 80. Many of them are mechanical, electrical or building engineers or technicians.

Based on H&K Industrieanlagen GmbH information