Changes in management at Haver & Boecker’s Wire Weaving and Machinery Division

A generational change took place at the helm of Haver & Boecker in Oelde, Germany, when Florian Festge (39) and Dr Fabian Festge (36) took over responsibility for the management of the Machinery Division of the company from their father, Dr Reinhold Festge, who has taken over the position of president at the Verband Deutscher Maschinen- und Anlagenbau (Association of German Machinery and Plant Manufacturers) for the next three years.

He will continue to be available to his sons for advising on matters mainly related to business development.

Florian Festge has been working for the 7418 Haver Group for 13 years. After completing his business administration studies in 2001, he took a management position at the Canadian subsidiary company W.S. Tyler in St. Catharines, Ontario. He was then managing director from 2005 until his return to Oelde last summer.

After completing studies in business administration and receiving a doctorate degree, Dr Fabian Festge was employed by 5655 Messe München (organisers of 386 Bauma) for two years before moving to Haver & Boecker in 2008. He was then managing director of the newly-founded subsidiary company Haver Ibau India in Vadodara from 2009 until early inf 2013.