Corporate | 22 December 2005 11:52

IWKA AG: Dr. Jürgen Koch named as new CFO of IWKA AG

Corporate-news transmitted by DGAP. The issuer is solely responsible for the content of this announcement. —————————————————————————— Dr. Jürgen Koch will become the new CFO of IWKA Aktiengesellschaft, Karlsruhe. The company’s Supervisory Board appointed Dr. Koch on December 22, 2005 and he will assume his new role by May 1, 2006 at the latest. Dieter Schäfer, who has been responsible for the Group’s controlling, will take on a new assignment on the Executive Board. After completing his studies in business administration at the University of Frankfurt, Dr. Jürgen Koch (48) held leading positions at major German plant engineering companies. Until 2000, he worked for Metallgesellschaft AG, where he had a variety of responsibilities. He was head of controlling at Lentjes AG until 1992. After serving on the board of Schiess AG, he returned to Lentjes AG in 1994 as the CFO on the company’s Executive Board. From 1997 to 2000, he was CFO on the Executive Board of Lurgi AG. Dr. Koch is presently an Executive Board member at Pfleiderer AG responsible for Finance, Accounting and Controlling. Dr. Rolf Bartke, Chairman of the Supervisory Board of IWKA AG, commented as follows on the appointment: “The Group has found in Dr. Koch a qualified leader with international experience who will promote the strategic and structural focus of the company on the Executive Board.” Dieter Schäfer, Dipl.-Kaufmann (53), who has been IWKA’s controller on the Executive Board to date, will henceforth be the Executive Board member focused on further developing the Group’s packaging technology business. IWKA is a globally operating automation group for the mechanical and plant engineering sector in the Automotive, Packaging and Robot Technologies. The company has generated in 2004 with approximately 11,500 employees sales revenues of EUR 2.3 billion. End of announcement (c)DGAP 22.12.2005 —————————————————————————— WKN: 620440; ISIN: DE0006204407; Index: MDAX Listed: Amtlicher Markt in Berlin-Bremen, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt (Prime Standard), Hamburg, Hannover, München und Stuttgart; Swiss Exchange