At an extraordinary shareholders' meeting held in January, the Siempelkamp shareholders unanimously elected Dr. Melanie Bockemühl to the Siempelkamp Advisory Board. With this decision, the company is thus anchoring its strategic, digital orientation in this body, as Dr. Melanie Bockemühl possesses extensive expertise as a digital strategist.

As a Partner and Managing Director at Boston Consulting Group, she co-led the global Digital Economy initiative and drove the development of the digital business. Subsequently, as a Partner at Bain & Company, she set the tone in the EMEA Digital Practice Leadership team and oversaw digital transformation projects at numerous large companies. She then held the position of Vice President & Partner Global Business Services at IBM, where she was responsible for overseeing the area of digital agencies and digital consulting services. As Senior Vice President Strategy & Transformation at Diebold Nixdorf, she was responsible for the global transformation program in Operations, which included the entire value chain from R&D, supply chain, production to service business.

"Developing and establishing digital solutions across all areas is crucial for the success of a company. We are delighted to have Dr. Melanie Bockemühl join us as a new advisory board member, guiding Siempelkamp's digital strategy alignment with her comprehensive expertise," says Bertram Staudenmaier, Chairman of the Advisory Board of G. Siempelkamp GmbH & Co. KG. "Digitalization plays a significant role in the future direction of the Siempelkamp Group. We therefore welcome Dr. Melanie Bockemühl as an advisor who will support us in consistently advancing our digitalization initiatives," adds Martin Scherrer, CEO of the Siempelkamp Group.

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about Siempelkamp

As a technology provider for machinery and equipment, casting and nuclear technology the Siempelkamp group has an international footprint. We are a system supplier of press lines and complete plants for the wood-based panel industry, metal forming, as well as the composites and rubber industries. With one of the world’s largest hand-molding foundries, we manufacture large cast parts at our Krefeld location; these have a total unit weight of up to 320 t. We also provide transport and storage containers for radioactive waste, and specialize in the dismantling of nuclear plants. The wood-based panel industry forms one of our central markets and our core competence: We cover the entire production process for wood-based panels – from round log and raw material handling up to storage and handling solutions for the finished wood-based panels as well as new approaches of machine learning. We provide our customers with comprehensive after sales & service throughout the entire life cycle of their plant.