Spelle, Germany: Volker Perk has become managing director production at Krone Commercial Vehicle Group.
The Krone Commercial Vehicle Group is realigning itself against the backdrop of the growing challenges of increasing automation in all production plants., the company says.

The aim is to future-proof the European production activities for all locations. As part of these plans.
Perk has has been with the company for 27 years, will continue to improve the production network at all plants and manage future-oriented investment projects.
Operational responsibility for day-to-day business will remain with the plant managers at the respective locations. “Volker Perk is a proven expert in his field and has already successfully implemented numerous complex large-scale projects at Krone, such as the construction of the coating centre in Werlte or a wide range of new production facilities.
Many automation solutions at the sites are characterised by his specialist knowledge. We are very pleased that we have been able to recruit Volker Perk for this important future task,” says Dr Stefan Binnewies, Krone Group board director.
Alfons Veer, The post was previously held the post, will focus more intensively on the strategic fields of sustainability, digitalisation and electrification in the future. With this personnel reinforcement, Krone is underlining its clear objective of combining modern production processes with a future-oriented organisational structure in order to remain competitive in the long term and preserve jobs.