Fritz P. Mayer new Chairman of VDMA

Fritz P. Mayer, Managing Partner of Karl Mayer Textilmaschinenfabrik GmbH, has been elected Chairman of the Textile Machinery Association within VDMA on 6th June 2008 in Berlin.

 Prior to this, according to schedule, the member companies of the Textile Machinery Association had elected their new board of directors for the period until 2011 during their general meeting. Mayer succeeds to the office Johann Philipp Dilo, who has led the Association since 2005.

The new board of directors appointed as Vice-Chairmen Heinrich Trützschler, Managing Partner of Trützschler GmbH & Co. KG and Karlheinz Liebrandt, Co-owner of Liba Maschinenfabrik GmbH.

By electing Mayer as Chairman during the constitutive meeting, the board adopted the proposal made by the leaving chairman Dilo. Long-year experience at the top of a medium-scale company and in the Chinese market are core competencies for a Chairman, Dilo outlined.‎

Since 1980 Fritz P. Mayer participates in the management of Karl Mayer Textilmaschinenfabrik.

The company founded in 1937 in the Hessian Obertshausen (abt. 30 km East of Frankfurt) is the world's leading manufacturer of warp knitting and Raschel machines. Today, Karl Mayer has 3,000 employees in Germany, Brazil, China, Great Britain, Italy, Japan and the US.‎