New chairman of the board of VDMA announced

Stephan Plenz, Member of the Management Board for Digital Technology at Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG, is the new Chairman of the Management Board of the German Printing and Paper Technology Association (VDMA). At its meeting at the Dresden headquarters of KAMA GmbH, the Executive Board elected Plenz to succeed Kai Büntemeyer, who had been Chairman of the Executive Board since 2004.

“Kai Büntemeyer has shaped our trade association over the past 15 years. He carried out the honorary office with great commitment,” emphasized Dr. Markus Heering, Managing Director of the Association, in Dresden. With his resignation from the management of Kolbus GmbH & Co KG in January, Büntemeyer also resigned from the trade association board in accordance with the articles of association. It is composed of active managing directors and board members of the member companies, who are elected by the general meeting of the VDMA trade association for a period of four years.