New Gurit Business Unit Engineered Structures formed to address additional composite market opportunities
Zürich, September 20, 2011. In order to more rigorously address new
market opportunities for composite applications, Gurit is bundling its
world-leading composite structural engineering skills with business
development and rapid prototyping resources in a new dedicated business
unit called Engineered Structures.
Engineered Structures will continue to support the engineering needs of
Gurit’s traditional strongholds in Wind Energy and Marine but will also
be able to address the full value chain in new markets with a
comprehensive service offering encompassing conceptual design,
structural engineering, material selection, rapid prototyping services
and component manufacturing.
Graham Harvey, currently General Manager of Gurit’s Marine Business,
will manage this new venture as of October 1, 2011 and report directly
to the CEO.
The search for a new General Manager for Gurit’s Marine business has
been launched. Graham Harvey will continue to run the Marine business
until a successor has been found.
“This is the start of a next growth initiative for Gurit: It follows the
rapid build-up of its business presence in Asia and the strategic
broadening of its material and services offering for the Wind Energy
market with Tooling and the development of a complete core material
product range”, says Rudolf Hadorn, CEO of Gurit.
For further information
Rudolf Hadorn, CEO Gurit Holding,
Tel + 41 44 316 1560; Mobile: +41 79 601 6128; rudolf.hadorn@gurit.com
For general information on Gurit
Bernhard Schweizer, Group Communications/Investor Relations,
Tel. +41 44 316 1555; Mobile: +41 79 373 2178; bernhard.schweizer@gurit.com
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On Gurit: The companies of Gurit Holding AG, Wattwil/Switzerland, (SIX
Swiss Ex-change: GUR) are specialised on the development and manufacture
of advanced com-posite materials and related technologies featuring
bespoke physical and chemical characteristics. The comprehensive product
range comprises fibre reinforced prepregs, structural core products
(man-made materials and balsa wood), gel coats, adhesives, resins and
consumables as well as certain finished parts. Gurit supplies growth
markets in Wind Energy, Tooling, Transportation, Marine, and Engineered
Structures. The international Group has production sites and offices in
Switzerland, Germany, the UK, Canada, Spain, Australia, New Zealand, the
USA, Ecuador, India and China.