Apex International Appoints Corrugated Market Director

 

Anton Lesscher has been appointed appointed corrugated market director of Apex Intl. (Eden Prairie, Minn., USA) as of this month (Dec. 2018) to complete the sales management team and further continue the formalization and professionalization of the Apex organization. After studying to become a mechanical engineer in Holland, he worked in an international company where he collected his first training experience combined with a hands-on mentality.

In 1991 he made his first steps into the corrugated industry, when he was appointed as process trainer at one of the leading machine manufacturers in the Corrugated Board industry. The next 9 years he was involved in the start-up of more than 100 corrugators worldwide. Troubleshooting on running corrugators was part of the job as well as support in demonstrating corrugators. Anton Lesscher created a training program based on the  "Three Critical Disciplines" of the corrugator process,: Process, Electrical and Mechanical and the training included staff of existing, new and operational corrugators. The next step was to set up a self-reliant Service Department and Anton became the VP Training of this business unit. A few years later, an independent daughter company was set up and Anton became CEO of this company. The target was to streamline all service and after-sales activities and it also involved the development, training and implementation of maintenance contracts on a global scale.

Anton eventually switched branches, however, his heart beats for the corrugated industry and therefore, he is delighted to be able to return to this industry in the role of Market Director Corrugated for Apex International, where he has the opportunity to apply all of his corrugating experience.