Change of Top Management at Dürr in North America Mike Boss Appointed New CEO and President

Southfield, December 3, 2018 – Effective December 3, Mike Boss will take over the lead of Dürr Systems, Inc. from Bruno Welsch, who moves on to pursue his career in Dürr’s German Senior Executive Management.

"I am delighted to welcome Mike Boss to our company. He has a high level of expertise in paint engineering and knows the automotive industry very well. He is well acquainted with Dürr from his time at Ford," says Bruno Welsch, who will in his new position as Member of the Board of Dürr Systems AG be responsible for the worldwide activities of Dürr´s Paint and Final Assembly Systems division.

Mike Boss studied chemical engineering, holds an MBA in Business Administration and is an expert on the automotive industry. He began his professional career at the Ford Motor Company in 1988, where he held different management positions mainly in the paint area. These included Manufacturing Engineering Manager - Paint - Ontario Truck Plant, Manufacturing Engineering Manager - Body Construction - Kansas City, Paint Area Manager - Norfolk Assembly Plant, Paint Area Manager - Kansas City Assembly Plant, Manager - Paint Production Engineering and for the last 9 years he was Chief Engineer - Global Paint Engineering. The manager spent a total of 30 years at the Ford Motor Company.

As CEO and president, Mike Boss will be responsible for Dürr Systems Inc.´s overall activities in the areas of Paint and Final Assembly, Application Technology and Clean Technology in North America.

In response to Bruno Welsch’s transfer from the US to Germany, Dr. Jochen Weyrauch, Member of the Board of Management of Dürr AG and CEO of Dürr Systems AG said: "Bruno Welsch has contributed a great deal to the positive development of Dürr Systems, Inc. in the last ten years he was in this position. He has efficiently organized the company after the world economic crisis in 2009, and helped to shape Dürr's strategic development and positioning. Under his direction, Dürr has gained an excellent reputation in the North American market.”

Bruno Welsch started his career with Dürr in 1996 in electrical hardware design and software development and worked his way up holding different management positions in Korea, Malaysia and Mexico before he took the lead in North America.

The Board of Management of Dürr AG would like to thank Bruno Welsch for his highly successful work over many years in North America and beyond and wishes Mike Boss good luck in this new position at Dürr.

About the Dürr Group

The Dürr Group has been established in the United States since 1970 and currently employs around 880 people. From the new Campus with a state-of-art validation, testing, and training center in Southfield, MI, Dürr USA represents four of the five divisions. Paint and Final Assembly Systems offers equipment for painting and assembly processes, while Application Technology provides paint application systems. Dürr’s Clean Technology Systems is the global leader in air pollution abatement and energy efficient technologies. The subsidiary Schenck Trebel Corporation, based in Deer Park, New York, offers balancing machines, vibration and condition monitoring systems and services for the general industry. The customers of Dürr USA include automotive and commercial vehicle manufacturers as well as their suppliers, and a diverse group of other industries. HOMAG Machinery North America operates the production facilities for HOMAG Group in Grand Rapids, MI, which is also the base for sales and service company Stiles Machinery Inc.

The Dürr Group is one of the world's leading mechanical and plant engineering firms with extensive expertise in automation and digitization/Industry 4.0. Products, systems and services offered by the Group enable highly efficient manufacturing processes in different industries. Dürr supplies sectors like the automotive industry, mechanical engineering, chemical, pharmaceutical and woodworking industries. The company has 92 business locations in 31 countries. The Group generated sales of € 3.71 billion in 2017. In October 2018 Dürr acquired the industrial environmental technology business of US company Babcock & Wilcox, comprising the MEGTEC and Universal brands. Since then, the company has had over 16,000 employees and 108 business locations in 32 countries. The Group operates in the market with five divisions:

• Paint and Final Assembly Systems: paint shops and final assembly systems for the automotive industry
• Application Technology: robot technologies for the automated application of paint, sealants and adhesives
• Clean Technology Systems: exhaust-air purification systems, noise filtration systems and energy efficiency technology
• Measuring and Process Systems: balancing equipment as well as assembly, testing and filling technology
• Woodworking Machinery and Systems: machinery and equipment for the woodworking industry

Contact:

Astrid Weisseise

Dürr Systems, Inc.

Marketing Manager

Phone +1 248 450-2225

E-mail astrid.weisseise@durrusa.com

www.durr-northamerica.com