HANOVER, Germany—Continental A.G. has appointed Klaus Kreipe as the new head of original equipment truck tires worldwide. He replaced Peter Matzke, who has retired after 40 years.
Kreipe will manage the business field from Hanover-Stöcken.
He has been working for Continental for 15 years, and has spent 12 of these years working at the company's various foreign locations.
Most recently, Kreipe worked as general manager of the Eurofit Group in Belgium, a joint venture co-founded by Continental for assembling and sequencing passenger car tires.