HAMBURG, Germany—The Harburg-Freudenberger Maschinenbau GmbH has appointed Joern Seevers as its managing director, effective July 1.
Seevers joined Harburg-Freudenberger in January 2014 as the head of the curing press department of the Harburg-Freudenberger TireTech Group.
Between 2014-15 he served as the managing director of the group's “largest production facility” in Belisce, Croatia, HF said in a statement.
Since the beginning of 2016, Seevers has served on the supervisory board of Harburg-Freudenberger Belisce.
Seevers began his career as a process engineer at Continental Tire A.G. in Hanover in 1999 and became head of the process and machine development department in 2004. In 2010, Seevers moved to Giti Tire in Shanghai, China, where he managed the central technology department and was the technical manager of the machine factory.