Carsten Schmidt and Martin Hücking have taken over responsibility for SGB GmbH as the new Managing Directors. Former Managing Director Jost Berg is taking his well-deserved retirement after 36 years, 35 of which as Managing Director.
Carsten Schmidt, a business graduate (FH), is an expert in the field of international sales. He brings a wealth of knowledge to SGB, gained from over 25 years in the tank construction, rail and mining industries.
The 52-year-old has experience in both product and project business at national and international level and was most recently deputy managing director of a global mining supplier. He has been part of the SGB team since the beginning of the year and has been a full-time Managing Director since the beginning of April.
“My aim is to strengthen and further develop SGB in its successful tradition as a leading manufacturer of leak detection technology with new impetus,” explains Schmidt.
Martin Hücking, born in 1965, has a degree in engineering and has worked for SGB since 1992. As Technical Director, he is responsible for a number of innovations and milestones, such as the first explosion-proof vacuum leak detector VL-H9 (1997), the first pressure leak detector with integrated manifold for multiple underground tanks ELC (1999), the first leak detectors for double-walled hose lines (1999), the first electronically operated leak detector (2002), the vacuum system for simultaneous monitoring of underground tanks and pipelines VIMS (2013), the first overpressure monitoring unit for simultaneous leak monitoring of tanks and pipelines LDU (2010), the first partially explosion-proof vacuum combination leak detector for underground tanks and pipelines VLXE-SAB T/P (2017), the first leak monitoring system for LNG pipelines LD VIP (2017) and the first electronic leak detector for ex-areas VLXE . Ex (2020).
“An open mind for innovation and inventiveness have always characterized the history of SGB. We have successfully mastered many challenges in the past. Always with an ear to the market and its needs. This is our strength, which we will continue to put into practice and build on,” adds Hücking. Jost, who is celebrating his 65th birthday this year, is the son of company founder Dr. Fritz Berg, who founded SGB in Siegen in 1962.
Since 2022, SGB GmbH has been part of the globally operating ELAFLEX Group, one of the leading international specialists for refueling technology and safe connections for handling sensitive liquids and gases. “We are convinced”, says Stefan Kunter, speaker of the management board of ELAFLEX HIBY GmbH & Co. KG, “that the synthesis in the management of commercial, internationally oriented expertise on the one hand and many years of technical know-how combined with brilliant product knowledge on the other will continue the company’s success and combine continuity with new impulses.”
“With Carsten Schmidt and Martin Hücking, we have gained two competent experts with experience in their specialist areas to manage SGB. We are looking forward to a good and successful cooperation and are confident about the future of our companies," concludes Stefan Kunter: “I am very pleased and grateful that Jost Berg will continue to support us as a Senior Consultant in an advisory capacity in the future.”
Photo above top: End of an era – Jost Berg hands over the baton to Carsten Schmidt and Martin Hücking (from left to right) as taking his retirement after 36 years at SGB.
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