Sheboygan – Effective July 1st, 2010, Patrick Walczak (37) has been appointed Director of Sales & Marketing for Pemco Inc., a company of the Körber PaperLink Group (KPL). He will be responsible for sales and marketing activities in the U.S. for the KPL companies Pemco, E.C.H. Will and Kugler-Womako.

In his last position, Patrick Walczak, who studied industrial management at Nordakademie, a private university in Hamburg, Germany, was Sales and Commercial Director at the machine manufacturing company Harburg-Freudenberger Maschinenbau GmbH in Hamburg.

Between 1997 and 2006, he worked at E.C.H. Will, one of Pemco's sister companies, in different positions, the last being Area Sales Manager for Eastern Europe, Russia and a major part of Western Europe.

"We are happy to welcome Patrick to our team," says Lee Sleiter, President of Pemco Inc. "Having worked for our Group before, Patrick is familiar with our company and has exceptional knowledge of our products, services and processes."