RHI appoints Franz Buxbaum as new Head of Division Raw Materials

RHI AG has recently assigned a management function: Franz Buxbaum, 54, is named head of RHI’s Raw Materials Division, effective September 1, 2010. Buxbaum is, together with his team, responsible for the Group’s entire raw material activities. Buxbaum has held various management positions within RHI AG since 1996. His most recent assignment was the responsibility of the Raw Materials Divisions’ manufacturing. Franz Buxbaum has a degree in technical physics from University Graz and an Executive MBA from Imadec University Vienna – San Francisco. Before coming to RHI 14 years ago, Buxbaum worked with Steyr-Daimler-Puch, Böhler, Veitsch-Radex as well with Tyrolit Schleifmittelwerke Swarovski in Austria. Ernst Stoelzel, the former head of this division, has requested his resignation.

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