With immediate effect, Mr. Sven Frauenstein was appointed CTO, and Mr. Andrew Goeppert was appointed Authorised Signatory, in order to support the company’s CEO Dr. Michael Harr.

Prior to his appointment as CTO, Sven Frauenstein was Authorised Signatory and Technical Director. He first entered the solar industry in 2008 as head of the Facility, Maintenance and Equipment Engineering division at the Q-Cells affiliate Calyxo, and earlier in his career played a major role in semiconductor industry establishing the world’s first production process with 300 mm wafers.

Andrew Goeppert first joined CTF SOLAR in 2010 as Director Equipment and Contracts, responsible for Equipment Engineering. Like Sven Frauenstein, he also gained experience of the PV business at Calyxo, where he was responsible for equipment selection and project coordination in the context of capacity expansion.

“I very appreciate these new appointments,” Dr. Michael Harr, CEO of CTF SOLAR, said. “With their new positions both colleagues are enabled even to enforce the valuable support given to me already up to now. CTF SOLAR intends to expand its business also in the challenging environment of the today’s solar industry. This requires a powerful management.”