Klasmann-Deilmann welcomes international top manager

Jan Astrup to be in charge of expanding international substrate production

Jan Astrup is to be Chief Operating Officer of the Klasmann-Deilmann Group. Starting on 1 June 2021, Mr Astrup will be responsible for our international substrate production. The new post will include the Group wide coordination of production processes, investments, planning and the management of our projects with production-partners both in Germany and abroad.

“In welcoming Mr Astrup, the Klasmann-Deilmann Group will be gaining an internationally experienced executive who already has a successful track record in the substrate industry,” said Managing Director Moritz Böcking. “We have ambitious growth plans for our production locations in Europe and Asia. The post held by our new Chief Operating Officer will bring together all of our technical and production-related activities to enable the effective implementation at international level. Mr Astrup will strengthen our company’s trajectory of global growth and digitisation and play a key role in further consolidating our company’s leading position in the growing-media sector.”