Machine producer adds to board of directors

Hamburg Dresdner Maschinenfabriken, which produces machines and plants for the cocoa and chocolate industry, has expanded its board of directors with the recruitment of Wolfgang Pförsich.

He is now responsible within the corporate group for the operational business of Petzholdt Heidenauer GmbH in Dresden, Germany, and Macintyre Chocolate Systems in Arbroath, Scotland.

The overall management of Hamburg Dresdner Maschinenfabriken, a division of the Probat Group from Emmerich, continues to lie with the managing director Günter Simon.