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ST Extruded Products Group (STEP-G) Friedrich-Wöhler-Straße 2 53117 Bonn, Germany https://www.step-g.com/
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New Appointment in Top Sales Management at STEP-G

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ST Extruded Products Group, for short STEP-G, has announced a change in its Sales Management team. As from 1 April 2023, Stefan Knabben will take on the position of Director Sales for the brands STEP-G and BUG Aluminium-Systeme for the group. He succeeds Edgar Gebhart, the current STEP-G Director Sales, who is going into retirement.

A change in the Senior Management und Sales Team of STEP-G is imminent: Edgar Gebhart is going into well-earned retirement. His successor, Stefan Knabben, will take over the position on 1 April 2023. Since January Knabben and Gebhart have been visiting existing customers and the STEP-G locations to ensure an optimal transition and continuation of the current successful course. “I’m delighted to hand over to Stefan Knabben. I know the STEP-G team will support him for positive development moving forward”, says Gebhart. Knabben adds: “I’m looking forward to the new challenge and to boosting STEP-G’s position on the fiercely competitive market. Drawing on my experience from the aluminium industry, I want to actively drive sustained further market development of the brand and seamlessly follow up on Edgar Gebhart’s successful work.”

With over 30 years of experience in the aluminium industry, Edgar Gebhart is an expert on the market. He was barely into his twenties when he launched his career in sales. In 1987 he took on his first post as director of sales. Subsequently, he worked as a managing director in various companies. During his time in the STEP-G Group, he contributed to the achievement of a number of milestones and was a driving force behind the brand development after the change of ownership in 2015. He was instrumental in a range of successful projects and shares responsibility for the brand’s improved market standing. As a result, STEP-G is today well known as a reliable provider of highly complex, customer-specific solutions. “Edgar Gebhart spent many years leading the STEP-G sales team. Over this time, he and his team were able to attract exciting projects and new customers”, says Markus Ogawa. He adds, “Our thanks go to him for his longstanding commitment and loyalty to the company.”

Stefan Knabben will take over the role from March 2023. Stefan Knabben previously worked for Speira GmbH, a globally operating aluminium rolling and recycling company with its own research and development centre as well as a finishing plant. His last role there was Director Commercial Development Speira. During his career, Knabben has held various positions in areas including automotive, foils and lithography. He has worked in locations as diverse as Grevenbroich, New York and Sao Paulo. “Stefan Knabben has a broad background in various fields. His approach is service-centred, sales-oriented and strongly focused on sales-enhancing marketing. What’s more, he knows the aluminium industry inside out”, says Edgar Gebhart. “He is the ideal candidate for our continuing successful market development. As the new Director Sales he will inject powerful new dynamism that will prepare the company for upcoming challenges.”

At STEP-G, Knabben aims to ensure customer-centred and bespoke aluminium lightweight-construction and service solutions with an even stronger focus on added value for customers. “My vision is an agile, modern sales department with a stronger focus on customer requirements. What’s important for us is that we recognise and analyse the needs of the market and our customers at an early stage. Then we can actively translate these into customer and service solutions”, says Knabben. He aims to achieve these ambitious goals through continuous process optimisations, customer-specific service agreements and excellent delivery performance. “Right now I’m still gaining an overall picture of all the responsibilities and processes. At the same time I’m working with my team on the first changes. It’s all about lean processes, starting with the sales team then spreading out across the organisation. This is the only way to achieve improvements in the form of proactive communication as well as excellent services and product supplies to our customers.”

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ST Extruded Products Group, kurz STEP-G, ist einer der weltweit führenden Hersteller von Aluminium Strangpressprofilen. Mit Produktionsstätten in Deutschland, Belgien und China ist STEP-G multinational aufgestellt. Die drei deutschen Presswerke in Bitterfeld, Bonn und Vogt sind hochspezialisiert und bieten ein umfangreiches Programm an Profilen und Stangen. Auf die innovative Qualität vertraut die Automobilindustrie ebenso wie deren direkte Zulieferer, die Luft- und Schienenfahrzeugindustrie, die Maschinenbaubranche, das Segment Elektrotechnik und der Sektor Bau. Abgerundet wird das Portfolio durch diverse Möglichkeiten zur Weiterverarbeitung bis hin zur Komponentenfertigung. Die Gießerei in Hettstedt mit einem umfangreichen Angebot auch an Speziallegierungen bietet unseren Kunden zudem Technologie- und Versorgungssicherheit aus einer Hand.

Von der Gründung bis heute 1915 wurde das erste deutsche Werk in Bitterfeld gegründet. Darauf folgten 1921 das Werk in Bonn, 1946 das belgische Werk in Duffel und 1952 eröffnete das Werk in Vogt. Im Jahr 2000 wurde das chinesische Werk in Tianjin in Betrieb genommen. Durch Aleris International Inc. wurden 2006 die Werke von Corus Aluminium erworben. Seit 1. März 2015 gehört die Aleris Aluminium-Extrusions-Sparte zu dem japanischen Unternehmen Sankyo Tateyama, Inc., einem Hersteller von Extrusions- und Gussprodukten. Im Jahr 2019 wurde die Gießerei in Hettstedt in den STEP-G Familienverbund aufgenommen.

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