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Regina Brückner New Chairperson of
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VDMA Textile Machinery Association

Chairperson and Vice Chairpersons of the Textile Machinery Association: AD
Regina Brückner, Fritz P. Mayer, Verena Thies (L-R)

Ms. Regina Brückner, Managing Associate of Brückner Trockentechnik, is the new chairperson of the VDMA
Textile Machinery Association. The businesswoman from Leonberg was elected at the members’ meeting of the
Association in Berlin. The new executive board is completed with Ms. Verena Thies, Thies Textilmaschinen, and
Mr. Fritz P. Mayer, Karl Mayer Textilmaschinenfabrik, who were elected as vice chairpersons.

After her election, Regina Brückner stated: „ I am pleased to have Ms. Thies and Mr. Mayer by my side, the two
chairpersons who complement each other very well. Mr. Mayer is an entrepreneurial personality with decades
of experience which he is meanwhile bringing in as the president of CEMATEX, the European Committee of
Textile Machinery Manufacturers. Ms. Thies assumed responsibility in the family company early on and has
been working for the traditional company Thies in international textile machinery business since 2009.”

The new executive board for the legislative period until 2021 is composed of:
Regina Brückner (Chairperson), Brückner Trockentechnik
Verena Thies (Vice Chairperson), Thies
Fritz P. Mayer (Vice Chairman), Karl Mayer Textilmaschinenfabrik
Johann Phillip Dilo, Oskar Dilo Maschinenfabrik
Peter D. Dornier, Lindauer Dornier
Arno Gärtner, Karl Mayer Textilmaschinenfabrik
Roland Hampel, A. Monforts Textilmaschinen
Dr. Janpeter Horn, Herzog
Markus Kleindorp, Memminger-Iro
Martin Küppers, Saurer Schlafhorst
Georg Stausberg, Oerlikon Textile
Andreas Lukas, Andritz Küsters
Benjamin Mayer, Mayer & Cie.
Eric Schöller, Groz-Beckert
Heinrich Trützschler, Trützschler

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