Top management change – previous Pöls head Kurt Maier to become new CEO

In its meeting on 18 December 2015, the Supervisory Board of the Heinzel Group appointed Kurt Maier as new Chief Executive Officer of Heinzel Holding GmbH. Kurt Maier, currently spokesman of the Management Board of the group company Zellstoff Pöls AG, will assume his new role with effect from the next general meeting on 31 March 2016.

On the same day, the current CEO Alfred Heinzel will withdraw from the operational business and join the Supervisory Board.

The Supervisory Board will decide on the successor of Kurt Maier at Zellstoff Pöls AG soon.