Baton change at WITTMANN BATTENFELD

The graduated industrial engineer Rainer Weingraber can look back on many years of management experience in internationally renowned companies of international renown, such as DaimlerChrysler, Siemens, Magna and, most recently, the Haas Group, where he worked as a Managing Director for several years in Austria as well as in other countries. Rainer Weingraber sees himself primarily as an all-rounder with a high affinity for technology and mechanical engineering in particular.

Dr. Werner Wittmann, Managing Partner of the WITTMANN Group, is pleased to have enlisted the services of Rainer Weingraber as Managing Director and CEO of WITTMANN BATTENFELD: “With Rainer Weingraber, the WITTMANN Group will have a top executive who will give the company new impulses from his knowledge and management experience.”

Werner Wittmann takes this opportunity to thank Georg Tinschert, who will terminate his active career as Managing Director of WITTMANN BATTENFELD and go into retirement, for his more than 10 years of successful service at the head of the company. Under Georg Tinschert, who was appointed CEO of the company at the end of 2007, WITTMANN BATTENFELD has experienced an impressive development both technologically and economically and is one of the internationally renowned players in the plastics industry today. Werner Wittmann is confident that Rainer Weingraber will continue and further strengthen the company’s positive development.

The WITTMANN Group

The WITTMANN Group is a worldwide leader in the production of injection molding machines, robots and peripheral equipment for the plastics processing industry, headquartered in Vienna/Austria and consisting of two main divisions: WITTMANN BATTENFELD and WITTMANN. They jointly operate the companies of the group with eight production plants in five countries, and its additional sales and service companies are active with 34 facilities on all important plastics markets around the world.

WITTMANN BATTENFELD pursues the further expansion of its market position as an injection molding machine manufacturer and specialist for state-of-the-art process technologies. As a supplier of comprehensive, modern machine technology in modular design, the company meets both present and future market demands for plastics injection molding equipment.

The WITTMANN product portfolio includes robots and automation systems, material handling systems, dryers, gravimetric and volumetric blenders, granulators, temperature controllers and chillers. With this diversified range of peripheral units, WITTMANN offers plastics processors solutions to cover all production requirements, ranging from independent production cells to integrated plant-wide systems.

The syndication of the various segments under the umbrella of the WITTMANN Group has led to complete connectivity between the various product lines, for the benefit of plastics processors with an increasing demand for seamless integration of processing machinery with automation and peripherals.