MAX Automation SE announced that in connection with a stronger focus on its core business, the Supervisory Board of the company has implemented a structural re-segmentation within the Group at the start of the 2019 financial year. The operating business will be divided into the three segments of Process Technologies, Environmental Technologies and Evolving Technologies, which will replace the previous Industrial Automation and Environmental Technology segments. The new segments will be reported for the first time in the interim report for the first quarter of 2019.

In connection with the new segmentation, the Supervisory Board has also restructured the MAX management structure and installed a Management Board. For each of the three business segments there is one responsible member of the Management Board, who is appointed as follows: Chairman: Andreas Krause (CFO of MAX Automation SE, Supervisory Board member); Head of Process Technologies: Patrick Vandenrhijn (Managing Director of MAX Automation SE, CEO of bdtronic GmbH); Head of Environmental Technologies: Werner Berens (Managing Director of MAX Automation SE, CEO of Vecoplan AG); and Head of Evolving Technologies: Dr. Guido Hild (Managing Director of MAX Automation SE). Patrick Vandenrhijn (with bdtronic since 2000) and Werner Berens (with Vecoplan since 2012) will continue to perform their additional functions at the two associated companies. The Supervisory Board of MAX Automation SE has also appointed Dr. Guido Hild to the Management Board of MAX Automation. He joins the company on June 1, 2019 and will take over the management of the Evolving Technologies business unit. He is currently Senior Vice President of GEA Group.