Gira – Reinforcements at the top
Gira appoints Hanno Froese as additional Managing Director.
Radevormwald, January 7, 2026. Effective January 1, 2026, the shareholders of building technology specialist and smart building pioneer Gira (www.gira.de), based in Radevormwald, have appointed Hanno Froese to the management board of the family-owned company. The 51-year-old will be responsible for the production and logistics, purchasing, planning and scheduling, and supply chain divisions at the internationally active, medium-sized technology company. The industrial engineer joins Gira in the Bergisches Land region from ebm-papst Landshut GmbH, where he most recently served as Vice President Operations and Integrated Supply Chain, overseeing all manufacturing and supply chain management for the global heating technology division. Together with the existing managing directors Christian Feltgen (Development and Product Management), Dominik Marte (Marketing and Sales), and Sebastian Marz (IT and Organization, Finance and Controlling, Human Resources), Hanno Froese forms the new leadership team of the building technology specialist.
Operations and Supply Chain Expert
“We are very much looking forward to working with Hanno Froese,” explains Sebastian Marz on behalf of his fellow managing directors. “With 25 years of experience managing production areas and manufacturing-related units along the value chain of industrial companies, our new colleague brings the necessary expertise to make a significant contribution to further improving our competitiveness and future viability. A warm welcome to Gira!”
Hanno Froese’s resume includes long-term positions as plant manager and managing director at Hilti AG, Jungheinrich AG, and the Swisspearl Group, before he assumed overall responsibility for six international plants at ebm-papst in July 2023.
Shaping Gira’s future together
“People and teamwork are very important to me. I am a passionate team player, because success can only be achieved together,” emphasizes the native of the Black Forest.
Accordingly, Hanno Froese has made it his goal to engage in many conversations upon joining Gira, paying particular attention to listening carefully in order to get to know the people and the company as quickly as possible and build trust.
“I am very much looking forward to actively shaping Gira’s future together with all employees and contributing my extensive experience,” explains Hanno Froese. “As a healthy, values-driven family business with highly innovative products of excellent quality ‘Made in Germany,’ Gira offers the best prerequisites for this.”
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More information on Hilti Corporation: https://www.hilti.com/ + Hilti is a family-owned company founded in 1941 and is based in Schaan, Liechtenstein, with our Hilti North America headquarters in Plano, Texas. Team members around the world contribute to making construction work safer, more productive and sustainable. We do this with our hardware, software and service offering.
Hilti stands for innovation and direct customer relationships. With more than 34,000 team members around the world, and business activities in over 120 countries, we contribute to making our customers’ work more productive, safer and more sustainable. We do this with our hardware, software and service offering.
With roughly 300,000 customer contacts each day, many ideas come directly from our customers. If there is a challenge for which no Hilti solution exists, one will be developed. This is why we invest approximately 7 percent of sales each year in research and development. From product development to manufacturing, logistics, sales and services, we cover the entire value-added chain.
Founded in 1941 by brothers Eugen and Martin Hilti, our company builds on strong roots and continuity. This long-term commitment has supported us in becoming a reliable partner for our customers and a trusted brand that they choose to work with. With our defined purpose of “Making Construction Better”, we are committed to developing products and solutions that drive productivity, sustainability, and safety in the construction industry with our values of integrity, courage, teamwork and commitment at the base of everything we do.
More information on Jahangir Doongaji (Chief Executive Officer, Hilti Corporation): https://www.hilti.group/content/hilti/CP/XX/en/company/corporate-information/executive-board.html + https://www.linkedin.com/in/jan-doongaji/
More information on Jungheinrich AG: https://www.jungheinrich.com/en + We are shaping the warehouse of the future
As a leading global material handling provider, we have been driving the development of innovative, sustainable products and solutions for all aspects of material flow for more than 70 years. As a listed family business, our goal is to shape the warehouse of the future.
With over one million electric vehicles in use and particularly energy-efficient solutions in the field of lithium-ion technology, we have energy expertise that is unique in the industry. A comprehensive range of automated warehouse systems, mobile robots and software enables fully automated intralogistics. Combining economic, ecological and social responsibility is the focus of all business activities.
- € 5,4bn net sales in 2024
- >21,000 Employees
- 41 Countries
More information on Dr. Lars Brzoska (Chairman of the Management Board, Jungheinrich AG): https://www.jungheinrich.com/en/about-us/our-management-6202
More information on Swisspearl Group: https://www.swisspearl.com/ + As a Swiss family-owned company, we think in terms of future generations, and for decades we have been doing what we do best: Through curiosity, passion, and commitment, we turn raw materials into novel and sustainable products for facades, roofs, interiors, and garden areas.
The headquarters of today’s Swisspearl Group are located in Niederurnen (Switzerland), where one of the first production facilities for fibre cement was founded in 1903. However, the success story of our fibre cement began as early as 1894 in Vöcklabruck, Austria. There, where it was invented by Ludwig Hatschek.
Today we are proud of our leading position in the innovation and technology of this material, which is used worldwide for the design of architecture and living spaces, exterior and interior.
More information on Marco Wenger (Chief Executive Officer, Swisspearl Group): https://www.swisspearl.com/company/swisspearl-group + https://www.linkedin.com/in/marco-wenger-40bb0b174/
More information on ebm-papst Group: https://www.ebmpapst.com/de/en/home.html + Your partner for sustainable, intelligent and innovative air and heating technology.
The ebm-papst Group is the world’s leading manufacturer of fans and motors with headquarters in Mulfingen, Baden-Württemberg. The familyowned company was founded in 1963 and sets international standards with its expertise in motor technology, electronics, digitalization, and aerodynamics.
ebm-papst offers sustainable, intelligent, and customized solutions for almost all ventilation and heating technology requirements. With its products, the company serves numerous industries such as ventilation, refrigeration and air conditioning technology, heating technology, IT, mechanical engineering, intralogistics, and medical technology.
In the 2024/25 financial year, the ebm-papst Group generated a turnover of 2.098 billion euros. The company employs around 13,500 people worldwide at almost 30 production sites, including in Germany, China, and the USA, as well as in around 50 sales offices.
More information on Dr. Klaus Geißdörfer (Chief Executive Officer, ebm-papst Group): https://www.ebmpapst.com/de/en/company/about-ebm-papst.html + https://www.linkedin.com/in/klaus-geissdoerfer-39a131/
EMR Additional Notes:
- Supply Chain:
- Network of all the individuals, organizations, resources, activities and technology involved in the creation and sale of a product. A supply chain encompasses everything from the delivery of source materials from the supplier to the manufacturer through to its eventual delivery to the end user.
- At the most fundamental level, Supply Chain Management (SCM) is management of the flow of goods, data, and finances related to a product or service, from the procurement of raw materials to the delivery of the product at its final destination.