New VDMA Board Member for Plastics and Rubber Machinery elected

At their general meeting, the representatives of the member companies of the VDMA Plastics and Rubber Machinery Association elected their new Executive Board for the period 2018 to 2021, followed by a constitutive meeting at which Ulrich Reifenhäuser, Managing Partner of the Reifenhäuser Group, was elected Chairman and Peter Steinbeck, Managing Partner of Windmöller & Hölscher KG, as his deputy.

The highest steering committee of the VDMA Plastics and Rubber Machinery Association starts its new term of office under good economic conditions: Following growth in German production of 4.1 percent in 2017 – corresponding to a value of 7.7 billion euros – growth of 3 percent is also forecast for the current year. However, despite a boom that has now lasted almost eight years, the global competitive advantage of mechanical engineering companies can only be maintained in the future through constant further thinking, development and action.