Roland Harings becomes CEO at MKM

Hettstedt (ots) -

- Management team complete now
- Copper specialist with a turnover of more than EUR 1 billion
plans to grow profitably
- New products and customer groups in focus

Roland Harings will become the new CEO of MKM Mansfelder Kupfer
und Messing GmbH (MKM), Hettstedt. With more than 1,000 employees and
a turnover of more than EUR 1.0 billion (2013) MKM is one of the four
leading manufacturers of semi-finished copper products. The company
processed more than 260,000 t copper in the last year. Harings takes
over the management from interim CEO Dr. Thomas Forster. Roland
Harings is presently Vice President of Novelis Inc., Atlanta (USA)
and also manages the European automotive component supply business of
Novelis. With a turnover of ca. USD10 billion Novelis is the leading
manufacturer of flat-rolled aluminium products worldwide. The 51-year
old certified engineer (RWTH Aachen) signifies the extraordinarily
positive turnover and earnings performance in the automotive
component supply business of Novelis.

New products, new customer groups and investments

"Under Dr. Thomas Forster's leadership we made a big number of
organisational changes and thus created important prerequisites for
becoming even more customer-oriented and more innovative. We made
progress here and will concentrate on a long-term profitable growth
in the next step.

We are very glad that we could win Roland Harings as new head of
our management," says Ian Howard, Chairman of the Supervisory Board
of MKM GmbH which has been belonging to a group of investors around
Hannam & Partners, London, since 2013. Roland Harings will manage the
company together with Gerhard Bickmann who has been CFO of the
company since May. Bickmann contributes his extensive experience as
CFO of leading medium-sized companies - from telecommunication to
industry. Roland Harings: "It is an honour to be trusted with the
management of MKM with its more than 100 years of tradition. We want
to utilize the knowledge and capabilities which already exist in our
company today even better to develop new products, open up new
customer groups and to invest for this objective purposefully."

A picture of Roland Harings is available for download here:

http://bsk.mediacenter.studioline.net/MKM

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