Posted March 11, 2015

 

HORGEN, Switzerland – Claudia Wagner has been appointed head of operations and chief operating officer at textile machinery manufacturer SSM Schärer Schweiter Mettler AG. She is in charge of SSM’s global production and supply network.

 

Wagner holds a master degree in mechanical engineering from the Technical University of Munich. She started her experience in the textile machinery industry in 2007 at Itema. She later spent one year for ITEMA in Shanghai to develop the supply chain for a new

machine.

 

Wagner joined SSM in 2010 as head of Strategic Sourcing. She acquired a Swiss Federal Diploma as purchasing manager two years later. With Christian Widmer’s transfer to the after sales department in March 2014, Wagner started became interim head of this department and has now been appointed as a full member of the management team of SSM.