GEA Diessel Appoints MD to Focus on International Fermentation for Pharma and Biotech

Hans-Peter Casel has taken over as Managing Director of the Liquid Pharma Business for GEA Diessel. The company is the GEA specialist for upstream biotech and pharmaceutical fermentation and part of GEA Pharma Systems, a strategic business unit within GEA Process Engineering. In his new role, Casel will be responsible for building the company’s high-tech brand and expanding its global customer base.

Casel has spent his entire working life in the pharmaceutical and biotech sectors and brings with him over 20 years of general and project management experience. After leaving the Technical University of Dortmund, where he studied chemical and process technologies and business administration, Casel joined GEA as a Project Engineer with GEA Messo GmbH and later as a Project Manager with GEA Wiegand GmbH. This introduced him to evaporation, concentration and fermentation technology. Over the last 14 years, he has expanded his experience, becoming more deeply involved in fermentation and biotech processing, before rejoining GEA to take up this new appointment.

“I was tempted by the opportunities at GEA Diessel,” he explained. “I wanted to use fully my experience and specialist knowledge of pharma and biotech fermentation and GEA Diessel provides me with the perfect opportunity to do just that.”

Casel explained that GEA Diessel has a very good name in the industry and is working hard to increase its international business. His brief is to expand the company globally by co-operating with GEA partners in China and India, thereby increasing its influence in those regions and elsewhere. “We will focus on high-technology applications in fermentation and formulation where we can really make a difference,” he explained. “We have the experience, products and technical know-how to work with our customers to develop processes and recipes that will help them to bring the products of the future to market quickly and successfully. This is where our talent lies and where we will be most successful.”

GEA Diessel GmbH, +49 5121 7420, beata.cymara@gea.com, www.diessel.com.