EuroWire March 2020

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Strategic moves at Messe Düsseldorf

2018, which include wire and Tube, Valve World Expo, and METEC, among many others. He will also be responsible for the global portfolio plastics and rubber with the trade fair K, and for various departments, including international business, corporate communications, and protocol and events. Mr Wienkamp takes over the many projects of Mr Reinhard. He also takes on the corporate strategic development and market research departments. An executive director at Messe Düsseldorf since 2002, Mr Wienkamp will continue to be responsible for partner and guest events, official participations, special events and international trade fair management. Messe Düsseldorf GmbH www.messe-duesseldorf.de OF plant in Poland USA-based Corning Optical Comm- unications (COC) is planning to build a new facility for optic fibre cable production in Poland. The plant will be situated in the town of Mszczonów in Żyrardów county. COC’s investment will be assisted by a grant from a state programme that supports important economic investments. With over 100 plants and branches worldwide, COC already has a research and development unit in Poland and a manufacturing plant in Stryków, near Łódź. COC plans to employ at least 240 people at the Mszczonów factory. Corning Optical Communications www.corning.com Photographs courtesy of Andreas Wiese, Messe Düsseldorf

THE December Shareholders’ Meeting of Messe Düsseldorf GmbH, presided over by the chairman, Lord Mayor Thomas Geisel, appointed Wolfram N Diener as the new president and chief executive officer, and Erhard Wienkamp as the new managing director operative trade fair business. In his new position, Mr Diener succeeds Werner M Dornscheidt, who will retire at the end of June after almost 17 years at the helm of the Düsseldorf trade fair company. Mr Diener will take up his post on 1 July. Mr Wienkamp succeeds Hans Werner Reinhard, who left the company in September 2019. Commenting on the new management team, Mr Dornscheidt said, “Markets are shifting, the world is becoming more international, more digital and more complex. With their many years of trade fair experience worldwide, Wolfram N Diener and Erhard Wienkamp are the ideal torchbearers to lead Messe

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Düsseldorf into the future. They stand for both renewal and continuity.” The board of management at Messe Düsseldorf has become leaner as a result of the personnel changes. Alongside Mr Diener as president and CEO, Mr Wienkamp will be the only managing director operative trade fair business. Bernhard J Stempfle, responsible for finance and technology, completes the management team. Lord Mayor Geisel welcomed the restructuring: “Messe Düsseldorf will have a streamlined, powerful and above all expert management team that will give the company the necessary agility to face the future in these times of digitalisation, global challenges and growing responsibility.” Mr Diener will continue to be responsible for the operational projects he has managed since joining the company in

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