Dr.-Ing. Hans-Toni Junius

Dr.-Ing. Hans-Toni Junius, Managing Partner and Chairman of the Management Board of C.D. Wälzholz KG, Hagen spoke on the subject "Innovative strength, dynamism & balance - 185 years of success with steel".

Founded in 1829, the family-owned company is active in steel processing and has a global presence with subsidiaries and agencies. In the last financial year, 1,900 employees generated a turnover of around 800 million euros. The company produces over 600,000 tons of steel per year at nine production sites in Europe, North and South America and Asia. Caspar Diederich Wälzholz laid the foundation stone for today's group of companies when he bought a coarse wire coil in the Nahmertal valley in 1829. Just 35 years later, CDW was one of the leading companies in the cold rolling industry at the time. Today, flexible materials such as high-strength spring steels for safety belt systems and electrical steel for hybrid drives and energy generation systems characterize the orientation of the materials and development spectrum.

Hans-Toni Juniusborn in Hagen/Westphalia in 1956, has been Chairman of the Management Board since 2005 and personally liable partner of C.D. Wälzholz KG since 2012. He graduated from the Technical University of Darmstadt in 1982 with a degree in industrial engineering. This was followed by periods of practical experience in the steel industry before he completed his doctorate in engineering at the Technical University of Darmstadt in 1987. Hans-Toni Junius joined the management of the family company in 1990.

Hans-Toni Junius is a member of the executive committee of the German Steel and Metal Processing Association, a board member of the SME Committee of the Federation of German Industries, Vice President of the South Westphalian Chamber of Industry and Commerce in Hagen and an advisor to several companies.

Status: Beginning of 2015