23.01.2018

Two new directors for BKL

Southern German mobile and tower crane specialist Baukran Logistik – BKL – has appointed two new directors to its senior management team, forming an executive board.

The executive management team now comprises four members, chairman and managing partner Alexander Volz, managing director Franz Schwaiger – who remains in charge of finance. Plus Jörg Hegestweiler who joins the company to handle sales, marketing, HR and IT, and Robert Popp - head of technical services. Michael Findeiß, who has been sales director since 2014, will handle sales and distribution at an operational level.
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The BKL executive management team (L-R) Jörg Hegestweiler, Alexander Volz, Franz Schwaiger and Robert Popp

Jörg Hegestweiler, 50, joins the company from formwork and scaffolding specialist Peri, where he has spent the past four and a half years as regional manager for the Middle East and Africa. He joined the company in 2013 from Liebherr where he had been managing director of Saudi Liebherr since 2007. He joined Liebherr from school in 1995 as a trainee with Liebherr Bieberach. He worked his way up through the ranks culminating as area sales manager UK, Ireland, Saudi Arabia and South Africa in 2003, moving to Saudi Liebherr four years later.
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Jörg Hegestweiler

Robert Popp has been head of service at BKL since 2006. Prior to joining BKL he spent 10 years with major contractor Bilfinger & Berger, where he was responsible for tower cranes.
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Robert Popp

Volz said: "Enlarging the management team and dividing responsibility into individual departments sends out a clear signal of the company's development, establishing a powerful position from which to launch our national and international expansion."

BKL runs a fleet of more than 400 tower cranes, plus 70 All Terrain and mobile self-erecting tower cranes from five locations in southern Germany.