By Plasteurope.com staff

Austrian packaging manufacturer Constantia Flexibles (Vienna; www.cflex.com) has announced a change in management. On the initiative of the new majority shareholder One Rock Capital Partners (New York, New York, USA; www.onerockcapital.com), Uwe Roehrhoff was appointed interim CEO with effect from 9 September 2024. He succeeds Pim Vervaat, who had been head of the company since 2020 and has now left.

Roehrhoff has been a member of the supervisory board of Constantia Flexibles since 2020. Previously, he was CEO of pharmaceutical packaging and medical products manufacturer Gerresheimer and pharmaceuticals producer Perrigo.

While the supervisory board has selected a new, permanent CEO to take over in early 2025, the company has not yet announced their choice.

One Rock Capital acquired a majority stake in the world’s third-largest manufacturer of flexible packaging from French investment company Wendel (Paris; www.wendelgroup.com) last year. The transaction was officially completed at the start of 2024.

Constantia Flexibles employs around 9,580 worldwide at 36 locations in 16 countries. Its most recent sales (2023) amounted to around EUR 2 bn, with plastic packaging solutions accounting for almost half of this. A total of 71% of sales come from the consumer goods sector and 29% from the pharmaceuticals area.

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Constantia acquired a majority stake in Swiss-Croatian packaging manufacturer Aluflexpack (Reinach, Switzerland; www.aluflexpack.com) in February this year.