HANS JOACHIM WICKERT

Owner, CEO, technical director

Graduate engineer. 1972-1976 study of engineering at the technical university Kaiserslautern, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany. Diploma topic: Stability analysis for highly stressed construction units, by presentation of the lines of force, with the help of photoelastic models.

1976 CEO and technical director for Wickert Maschinenbau GmbH in Landau in der Pfalz, Germany.

Focus of engineering activity: Development of hardening presses and hardening tools and automation.

Member of the standards committee for engineering in DIN

Department for plastic and rubber machines.

STEFAN HERZINGER

Co-partner, CEO, commercial director, priority: sales

1985 – 1987 Apprenticeship as electrician

1987 – 1988 Graduation

1988 – 1992 Study at the technical university Gießen-Friedberg, Germany: Diploma in industrial engineering

1992 – 1995 Sales engineer

1995 – 1998 Sales manager

Since 1998 CEO for Wickert Maschinenbau GmbH

1999 – 2001 Executive MBA in Entrepreneurial Management in Berlin, St. Gallen and Chicago

Since 2001 Co-Partner at Wickert Maschinenbau GmbH

Scott Early

President & CEO DESMA USA, Inc.

1991 Bachelors of Science in Mechanical Engineering Technology at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore
1991 to 1994 Tooling Engineer at IPC Freudenberg Wheaton located in Salisbury Maryland (pharmaceutical elastomer production by injection, compression, and compression / transfer molding methods) in addition to project management responsibilities
1994 -1997 Regional Sales Engineer for Klöckner DESMA Elastomertechnik machinery at KFD Sales and Service, Inc. in Erlanger Kentucky
1997-1999 Executive Vice President DESMA USA in Hebron Kentucky
Since 2000 President & CEO at DESMA USA
2007 established DESMA USA as the Wickert Maschinenbau GmbH representative in North America – Wickert USA
Since 2008 Established the DESMA NAMC (North American Manufacturing Center) for the design and production of elastomer tooling and cold runner systems

MANAGEMENT

HANS JOACHIM WICKERT

STEFAN HERZINGER

Scott Early

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