Windmoeller & Hoelscher’s Hans Deamer Retires

Published: June 02, 2014

LINCOLN, RI | Windmoeller & Hoelscher Corp. announces that president and treasurer Hans Deamer is retiring after 35 years of service to the company. 

Deamer began his career with W&H as product manager for printing presses, when the company had only 11 employees. He became senior VP of sales in 1990, and in 2001 he was promoted to president and treasurer, when his predecessor, Jim Feeney, retired. Upon Deamer's departure on June 6, he will have been instrumental in building the company to more than 50 employees and $160 million in annual sales, company reports.

“We thank Hans for his 35 years of hard work and dedication in developing W&H's North American market,” says Peter Steinbeck, managing director of the Windmöller & Hölscher Group in Germany. “His leadership, technical knowledge, and customer-first attitude have been integral in establishing W&H as an industry leader.”

Deamer has held long-term board positions with the Flexible Packaging Assn. and other organizations and given numerous presentations on flexible packaging as well as flexographic and gravure printing at many industry forums.

Current VP Andrew Wheeler has been appointed to take over leadership. “We are happy to have Andrew Wheeler at the helm. He's been with WHC since 1988 and is very well connected in the industry,” says Steinbeck.

Klaus Kleemann will become the VP of sales, and Javeed Buch will become VP of service. Both Buch and Kleemann are engineers and have been in management capacities at W&H for more than a decade.

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