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I NDUS T RY
5-8 June
Tube Russia
(Moscow, Russia)
International Exhibition
18-23 September
EMO
(Hanover, Germany)
International Exhibition
3-5 October
TUBOTECH
(São Paulo, Brazil)
International Exhibition
17-19 May
Made In Steel
(Milan, Italy)
International Exhibition
17-20 May
Lamiera
(Milan, Italy)
International Exhibition
28-30 June
Guangzhou Tube Fair
(Guangzhou, China)
International Exhibition
19-21 September
Tube Southeast Asia
(Bangkok, Thailand)
International Exhibition
6-9 November
FABTECH
(Chicago, USA)
International Exhibition
28-30 November
Stainless Steel World
(Paris, France)
Conference & Exhibition
D I ARY
2017
of Tube Events
Sales director
appointment
at Kocks
WITH effect from 1 February, Günther
Schnell has taken the role of managing
director sales and marketing at Friedrich
Kocks GmbH & Co KG, taking over from
Sergio Filippini, who left the company
on 1 March to go into retirement. Mr
Filippini spent 16 years with Kocks in a
managerial capacity, five of which were
spent heading the sales and marketing
section at the German headquarters in
Hilden.
Mr Schnell has considerable
experience in the steel industry, and
his appointment adds another expert
to the company’s executive team.
Following his degree in process
technology, he began his career in
1997 with VAI Technometal GmbH as a
project manager sales and technology
in the field of secondary metallurgy.
In 2002, he joined Friedrich Kocks for
the first time, eventually taking on the
position of general manager sales/chief
representative China. In 2010, he joined
SMS group GmbH, where he headed
sales as general manager for wire rod,
bar and merchant bar mills.
Friedrich Kocks GmbH & Co KG –
Germany
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(from left) Ali Bindernagel, Sergio Filippini,
Günther Schnell and Rötger Teyke