Effective September 11, Rolf Werner of Wieland-Werke AG is the new Chairman of the Board of Kupferverband e.V. He replaces Alexander Dehnelt of Diehl Brass Solutions Stiftung & Co. KG. With this change, an experienced copper expert once again holds the chairmanship of the Kupferverband. His deputies are Dirk Harten (Schwermetall Halbzeugwerk GmbH & Co. KG) and Dr. Michael Rehse (Gebr. Kemper Gmbh & Co. KG).

Rolf Werner has a well-developed network in the industry and with regulators thanks to his many years of activity in dozens of working groups of numerous sector and industry associations and committees at national and European level.

After studying mechanical engineering, Rolf Werner began his professional career at Wieland in 1998 in product management for sanitary tubes. His area of responsibility expanded steadily and eventually included the entire application technology for drawn products, plain and finned copper tubes, brass rods, alloy profiles as well as responsibility for the technical field service.

In 2019, he moved to a subsidiary and later took over the management there. In mid-2022, Werner was appointed to the board of directors of Joulia S.A. and then moved back to Wieland Werke AG.

He has long been associated with the Copper Association through his participation in numerous committees.

With Rolf Werner at the helm, the Copper Association will continue to consistently pursue its positioning as a central association with a European orientation and the mouthpiece of the copper industry, and optimize its service portfolio.

“I am looking forward to accompanying the Copper Association intensively in the coming years,” Rolf Werner comments on his new function. “Copper is a central material for the decarbonization of our society and the copper industry is thus a system-relevant sector for the expansion of renewable energies. In this context, one of the most important tasks of the Copper Association will be to ensure at the technical-scientific and political level that copper materials are perceived at all levels in terms of their importance for ecological change.”