At the beginning of the New Year Mr. Wolfgang Lux (see picture 1) joins the management of the POLOPLAST group. Together with Mr. Jürgen Miethlinger (see picture 2, right) he will lead the company into the future.

As the company's commercial CEO, Mr. Wolfgang Lux will be responsible for sales, marketing, sales logistics, as well as for finances & accountancy and cost controlling, succeeding Mr. Guntram Bock in this office. Mr. Bock was appointed member of the managing board of the Wietersdorfer Group, POLOPLAST's parent company. Mr. Miethlinger, continuing in his role as technical CEO, remains responsible for all technical issues as the head of the production, production development, quality assurance, human resources and purchasing departments.

POLOPLAST, a pioneer in multi-layer polypropylene pipes, has developed from an Austrian niche player into an international supplier of plastic pipe systems.

POLOPLAST are a company of the Wietersdorfer Group; their two locations, Leonding in Upper Austria and Ebenhofen in Bavaria, jointly yielded a turnover of EUR 75 M in 2006, which corresponds to a 20% increase as compared to the previous year. The double-digit operating results amount to over 10% of the turnover.

In 2007 POLOPLAST again expect a significant increase in turnover with an unchanged proportion of returns. This development will be continued in the years to come. New markets will be opened and the business activities in existing markets will be continuously developed.

"We are very well prepared to meet the challenges of the years to come. Our strong brands, innovation and further internationalisation, as well as a sustainable focus in our most valuable resource - our staff - are going to help us to achieve our ambitious aims for the coming years", Wolfgang Lux, the commercial CEO of the POLOPLAST Group, maintains.

Wolfgang Lux has been an employee of POLOPLAST for 32 years; for 9 years he worked in the business-economics department, for 15 years in the purchasing department, 9 of these as head of department; from 1999 he was the sales manager for the Austrian market. As from Jan 1st 2007 Mr. Wolfgang Lux is the commercial CEO of the POLOPLAST Group.