In June 2018, Michael Schulze took over the management of Hastamat, a packaging machine manufacturer based in Lahnau/Germany. The 51-year old managing director is the successor to Gerhard Junker who managed the company in the interim since November 2017.

“We are delighted that we have been able to enlist the expertise of Michael Schulze for our company,” says Olaf Piepenbrock, Executive Partner of Hastamats parent company, the Piepenbrock Group. “Together with his striving team, he will further expand Hastamat’s leading position in the market of vertical form fill and seal machines, multihead weighers and packaging lines for stackable chip”.

Michael Schulze’s career is closely connected to machine construction in the food industry where he gained extensive experience as the head of Materials Management and the head of Global Procurement Management at international companies. From 2004, Michael Schulze managed the Distribution and Production Logistics department at a leading systems supplier for the packaging and beverage industry before, in 2009, he took up the business management of a manufacturer of production facilities for wafers and snacks.