Effective 1 October 2017, Mr. Johannes Schwarz MBA, graduate engineer, has become the new Managing Director of battenfeld-cincinnati Austria in Vienna, Austria. The company’s new CTO, Dr. André Wieczorek, has been in office since 1 September 2017.
Johannes Schwarz MBA, graduate engineer, was born in Lower Austria. Following his graduation in Electrical Engineering from TU Vienna, he joined a leading plastics blow molding machine manu-facturer, first as Project Leader for Automation Technology, then as Manager of Electrical Engineering and CTO. From 2009 to 2017, he was the Managing Director responsible for Technology and Sales of Machinery and Equipment there. Schwarz completed his further studies while in employment with an MBA from WU Vienna in 2005.
Dr. André Wieczorek has been responsible for Product Development, Product Management and the technical lab in Vienna since September 2017. Following his studies of Plastics Technology at Montanuniversität Leoben he worked at the local Plastics Processing Institute as a university assistant and research associate. He was subsequently employed at leading Austrian industrial companies, first in Process Technology, then as Manager of R&D, Process Technology, in Project Management and finally as CTO.