Armin has accumulated over 39 years of papermaking experience at Gessner, with his apprenticeship in 1986.  He became the production manager for the paper machine in the mill in Weidach for almost 11 years, and then he moved to the US and was responsible for a rebuild and startup of mill in Appleton for Gessner. Returned to Germany in 2017 and Armin took a switch to R&D for new business. Gessner is in the southern part of Germany and operates under the Mativ Holding.