CPT International 02/2021

NEWS
ASK CHEMICALS
Hubert Windegger is new Chief Financial Officer
Hubert Windegger (50) joins the
management of ASK Chemicals, Hilden,
Germany, asGroup Chief Financial
Officer (CFO). In this role, he is responsible
for the areas Finance, Controlling,
Digitalization &IT.
Windegger succeeds Anders Wester,
who left the company at the end of
February. Wester served as CFO of the
ASK Chemicals Group since 2018 and
made important contributions to the
company‘s sustainable financial
development inrecent years.
With the Swiss Hubert Windegger,
the global foundry supplier ASK Chemicals
gains an experienced financial
expert as Group CFO. Windegger has
held various management positions at
Dow Chemical in Europe, including a
recent stint at Trinseo Europe, where he
Photo: ASK Chemicals
New CFO: Hubert Windegger succeeds
Anders Wester at ASK Chemicals Group.
contributed his financial expertise as
Division CFO.
„Hubert is aseasoned manager
who, alongside traditional CFO responsibilities,
will set new emphasis in the
digitalization strategy of ASK Chemicals.
Iamvery pleased that we were
able to win hin for our company,“ says
Frank Coenen, CEO of ASK Chemicals
Group.
ASK Chemicals is one of the world’s
largest suppliers of foundry chemicals
and consumables, with acomprehensive
product and service portfolio of binders,
coatings, feeders, filters, and
release agents, as well as metallurgical
products including inoculants, Mg-treatment,
and inoculation wires and master
alloys for iron casting.
www.ask-chemicals.com
NORICAN GROUP AMERICAS
Mike Lewis becomes new head of sales and service
Norican Group, parent company to
leading industrial equipment brands
Disa, Italpresse Gauss, StrikoWestofen
and Wheelabrator, has appointed Mike
Lewis as its new Vice President for
Sales and Service in North and South
America. In this position, he will be responsible
for sales and service for all
four Norican Group brands.
With atotal of 36 years of Norican
experience under his belt, Mike’s deep
knowledge of the metalworking industry
makes him the right person to
understand what customers really need.
Mike started as aservice technician with
Disa, then worked his way up to service
manager before becoming Disa President
for North America in 2004. Most
recently VP Commercial Operations for
Norican Group Americas, he gained a
degree in Business Management from
Aurora University in 1999.
“I’m very excited to take over this
role,” said Mike. “Our industry is more
competitive than ever and, as we come
out of the pandemic, our customers are
looking to us to help them improve performance.
I’m looking forward to continuing
to broaden and deepen our
Will promote sales
and services in the
Americas: Mike
Lewis, who has
been Americas-President
of Norican
brand Disa and VP
Commercial Operations
for Norican
Group Americas
before.
customer support, becoming even more
responsive to customer requests and
making it as simple as possible for them
to access the incredible combined
expertise of the four Norican Group
brands.”
Norican Group has spent the last
two years upgrading its infrastructure
to better serve its customers and transform
the way it delivers equipment,
parts and services. In 2020, it moved all
manufacturing and operations for the
four brands into its LaGrange Technology
Hub in Georgia where anew operations
and assembly facility opens in
2022. “To build world class support and
customer service, we are investing heavily
in anew logistics set-up in the USA
and weare partnering athird-party
logistics company to improve our speed
of delivery,” said Kim Tjerrild, Senior
Vice President Americas at Norican
Group. “This, accompanied by the
newly announced headquarters, is designed
to give our employees the best
environment to optimize our support to
all our valued customers.”
www.noricangroup.com
Photo: Norican Group
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