Nitrogen+Syngas 367 Sept-Oct 2020
30 September 2020
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SensoTech has announced a high level management restructuring which represents a generational change in leadership. Robert Benecke and Hannes Benecke, sons of the founder Dr. Ingo Benecke have become the company’s new managing directors with immediate effect, replacing Dr. Ingo Benecke and SensoTech co-founder Mathias Bode, who have run the company for 30 years, developing and producing sonic velocity measuring instruments for liquid analysis which can be found in numerous industrial plants around the globe.
Robert and Hannes Benecke said that they are looking forward to the new challenges and tasks: “In a way, we grew up in the company and know many employees for a very long time. SensoTech GmbH has very well-functioning structures and we look forward to further developing the company. We would like to thank the previous managing directors for their trust and look forward to the new tasks.” The objectives of the new management are the further development of the individual company divisions and the expansion of the international sales network. In this way, the successful course of the past years is to be further pushed.
Retiring director Dr Ingo Benecke said: “We would like to thank our employees, customers and business partners for the good, long-term cooperation. We had both good time and difficult. But even the difficult times were mastered through active commitment. With the handover to Robert and Hannes Benecke, we are banking on the future. The new management will tackle the tasks ahead with high motivation and determination and further develop Senso-Tech GmbH. We are convinced of this.”
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