Roland Wallner takes over WEEU region
Roland Wallner will be the new Managing Director Western Europe (WEEU) at ALPLA from 1 April 2025. With over 27 years of international management experience in Europe, the US, Middle East and Asia, and 14 years at the company, he was most recently Managing Director Asia-Pacific (APAC). During his successful time in Asia, driving significant top- and bottom-line growth, Wallner built up and expanded the company’s presence in several Asian countries and oversaw multiple major greenfield projects. He established the new technical centre for product development in Shanghai and introduced services such as the STUDIOa design centre and mould manufacturing. In recent years, Wallner successfully merged the former North-East Asia and South-East Asia regions into the new APAC region, based in Singapore.
‘Roland Wallner knows ALPLA, our customers’ needs and the business. With his strategic and prudent leadership style as well as his commitment to excellence, he will strengthen our position in Western Europe and drive future growth opportunities,’ says CEO Philipp Lehner with conviction. The WEEU region comprises 31 base plants and 17 in-house plants in ten countries. There are about 5,700 people employed in ALPLA’s largest region. Roland Wallner will be based at the headquarters in Hard initially and report directly to the CEO.
