BDI – BioEnergy International AG (AT)
BDI – BioEnergy International AG : Management Board changes

BDI - BioEnergy International AG   / Key word(s): Change of Personnel

15.04.2011 08:56

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The founders of BDI - BioEnergy International AG, Wilhelm Hammer (64), CEO,
and Helmut Gössler (52), CTO, will be leaving the Management Board for
personal reasons when their contracts end on 30. June 2011. Hammer and
Gössler are taking this step after making appropriate preparations for
their successors and in full agreement with the Supervisory Board of the
company. They will both continue to be associated with the company as
shareholders and consultants.

With effect from 1. July 2011, the Supervisory Board of BDI - BioEnergy
International AG has appointed Markus Dielacher (44) and Dr Edgar Ahn (46)
to be new members of the Management Board. Both of them have been with the
company for many years and have in-depth sales and technical experience.
Dagmar Heiden-Gasteiner (44) will remain in charge of the commercial
operations of BDI - BioEnergy International AG as Chief Financial Officer.


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Information and Explaination of the Issuer to this News:

Markus Dielacher, who has been COO of BDI - BioEnergy International AG
since 2008, and his team will be responsible for the engineering and
project management operations in future. Following technical training with
the emphasis on machine manufacturing, installation, heating and air
conditioning systems, Dielacher was Project Manager at the company Heinz
Hofstätter and the industrial plant manufacturer Vogel & Noot. Dielacher
has been with BDI since 1998: initially in the purchasing department and
later as the Head of Project Management, Project Development Manager and,
since 2010, as Director of Lignosol Technologie GmbH. Dielacher has a
Master of Science degree in sustainable energy management from Krems
University.

Dr Edgar Ahn and his team will be responsible for the sales & marketing and
research & development operations. He is a plant manufacturing specialist
with a doctorate in process engineering who has been with BDI since 1997.
He started off as head of research & development and later became Technical
Sales Director of BDI. Since 2008, Ahn has been CIO with responsibility for
innovation management at the company and took over management of Lignosol
Technologie GmbH in 2010.

Wilhelm Hammer: 'Since BDI was established 15 years ago now, my partner
Helmut Gössler and I have worked with our colleagues to develop the company
from small beginnings to the world market leader for multi-feedstock
biodiesel plants. In spite of the severe financial and economic crisis in
recent years, BDI is well equipped for the future today, as is demonstrated
by the positive development of the business in 2010 too. The BDI Management
Board is excellently staffed at both the professional and personal levels
with Dr Ahn, Mr Dielacher and Ms Heiden-Gasteiner. It goes without saying
that we will be continuing to act as consultants to BDI and will be
remaining major shareholders as well. In this context, we will be focussing
in particular on more effective exploitation of synergy benefits within the
BDI Group.'

About BDI - BioEnergy International AG

BDI - BioEnergy International AG is market and technology leader in the
construction of customised BioDiesel plants using the multi-feedstock
process the company has developed itself, which can manufacture BioDiesel
from different raw materials, such as Vegetable Oils, Used Cooking Oils and
Animal Fats.

BDI has specialised in the development of technologies that make optimum
use of resources in the industrial processing of by- and waste products
ever since it was established in 1996 and owns an extensive patent
portfolio that has resulted from its in-house research and development
activities. As a leading constructor of special plants, BDI also supplies
efficient plant concepts in the 'waste to energy' field that are designed
to obtain high-quality Omega-3 Fatty Acids and to produce BioGas from
industrial and municipal waste in co-operation and synergy with the
Enbasys, being part of the BDI group. The range of services includes public
authority, basic and detailed engineering, installation and start-up as
well as after-sales support.

BDI - BioEnergy International AG and the companies it consolidates
currently have more than 130 employees. The shares in BDI - BioEnergy
International AG (ISIN AT0000A02177) are listed in the Prime
Standard/Regulated Market at Frankfurt Stock Exchange.


Contact:
Janina Wismar
Kirchhoff Consult AG
Herrengraben 1
D-20459 Hamburg
T +49 40 60 91 86 50
F +49 40 60 91 86 16
Janina.wismar@kirchhoff.de





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Language:     English
Company:      BDI - BioEnergy International AG 
              Parkring 18
              8074 Grambach/Graz
              Österreich
Phone:        +43 - 316 - 4009-100
Fax:          +43 - 316 - 4009-110
E-mail:       bdi@bdi-biodiesel.com
Internet:     www.bdi-biodiesel.com
ISIN:         AT0000A02177
WKN:          A0LAXT
 
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