The KAP AG Supervisory Board has appointed Eckehard Forberich as a new member and Spokesman of the Management Board with effect as of 1 March 2020. Uwe Stahmer, who had been appointed to a temporary member of the Management Board as of 1 October 2019, will resign his position with the appointment of the new member and will resume his position on the Supervisory Board, which had been put on hold while he served on the Management Board. Physics and business graduate Eckehard Forberich has garnered extensive experience from a range of management positions, including as a partner at the management consultancy Roland Berger, as a management board member at Deutsche Steinzeug Cremer & Breuer and as a managing director of automotive supplier Uniwheels. He was primarily concerned with issues relating to technologies from the metal and plastics processing industries as well as chemicals and technical services.