New Plant Manager in Halberstadt

Dr Oetjen is the new plant manager at Novoplast Schlauchtechnik

Halberstadt, February 2016 – Dr Arndt Oetjen is the new Plant Manager at Novoplast Schlauchtechnik in Halberstadt. A qualified engineer for processing and plastics technology with a doctorate, he has been managing end-to-end production for both the Medical Technology and the Industrial Technology business units since 1 February 2016 and is aiming to establish reliable production operations for the growth markets in both areas.

After studying processing engineering in Hamburg and completing his doctorate in Mechanical Processing Technology at the University of Paderborn, the 50-year-old family man went on to acquire a wide range of industry experience. Dr Oetjen worked for six years as a development engineer at the Heidelberger Druck corporation in Heidelberg and in the USA and also as a project and quality manager at Paul Hartmann AG in Germany and China. Most recently, Dr Oetjen has held the positions of technical manager and plant manager at medium-sized companies in the plastics processing industry. Dr Oetjen wants to continue driving forward production operations in Halberstadt with a view to quality, reliability and efficiency in the context of growing quantities and greater capacity utilizations. "Setting and achieving targets is very important. But the way we take is even more important. Only a company that learns from its actions will continue to be successful in the future."

Ole Stein, Managing Director of Novoplast Schlauchtechnik, is very pleased with the new appointment as it means he is now able to again devote more time to his areas of focus in sales and product development. This will help to put the Masterflex brand Novoplast Schlauchtechnik back on a sustainable growth course in 2016.