Executive team for next strategic phase

In 2022, one year ahead of sched­ule, Cov­eris, one of the mar­ket lead­ers in the pack­ag­ing sec­tor, suc­cess­ful­ly com­plet­ed its strate­gic realign­ment phase. Fol­low­ing the sales of the Rigid and Amer­i­c­as divi­sions in 2018, Jakob A. Moss­er suc­cess­ful­ly trans­formed Cov­eris into one of the Euro­pean lead­ers of the paper and plas­tic flex­i­bles pack­ag­ing indus­try. Under his lead­er­ship, Cov­eris has become a com­pa­ny with a struc­tured mar­ket focus, an out­stand­ing for­ward-think­ing strat­e­gy, a com­pelling sus­tain­abil­i­ty vision and strong liq­uidi­ties to fund organ­ic and non-organ­ic growth. Today, Cov­eris is recog­nised as one of the most advanced pack­ag­ing com­pa­nies in the region.

Look­ing for­ward and con­tem­plat­ing the needs of the next strate­gic phase, Cov­eris share­hold­ers have decid­ed to focus Jakob A. Moss­er to the role of Exec­u­tive Chair­man, and to appoint Chris­t­ian Kolarik as the new CEO (Chief Exec­u­tive Officer).

“Chris­t­ian Kolarik, whom I have known and coop­er­at­ed with for many years, is a true indus­try expert. Since him join­ing Cov­eris in 2018, he has been instru­men­tal to the company’s suc­cess­ful trans­for­ma­tion. He is the ide­al per­son to take over and lead Cov­eris, con­tin­ue our inter­na­tion­al expan­sion and, above all, fur­ther advance our sus­tain­abil­i­ty strat­e­gy,” says Jakob A. Moss­er, Exec­u­tive Chair­man Cov­eris. “I look for­ward work­ing close­ly with him and the team also in my new role.”

Chris­t­ian Kolarik began his career in the glob­al pack­ag­ing indus­try more than 20 years ago. With a master’s degree in Mechan­i­cal Engi­neer­ing, he took on his first man­age­r­i­al role as Man­ag­ing Direc­tor of the Mon­di plant in Korneuburg, Aus­tria. Kolarik then assumed the role of CEO of Mon­di Con­sumer Flex­i­bles and then COO (Chief Oper­at­ing Offi­cer) of Schur Flex­i­bles Group, dur­ing which time he already worked with many of Cov­eris’ cur­rent exec­u­tives. Since 2018, he has served as Pres­i­dent of the Flex­i­bles Busi­ness Unit (flex­i­ble pack­ag­ing mate­ri­als) and since 2022 also as COO at Cov­eris pro­vid­ing sig­nif­i­cant input into the devel­op­ment and imple­men­ta­tion of Cov­eris’ realignment. 

“We are ide­al­ly posi­tioned to con­tin­ue our suc­cess­ful devel­op­ment and to fur­ther raise our pro­file. Our strong com­mit­ment to sus­tain­abil­i­ty with our No Waste vision and our recent­ly estab­lished ReCov­er Recy­cling Busi­ness Unit, helps not only to con­sis­tent­ly avoid prod­uct, pack­ag­ing and pro­duc­tion waste, but is also the dri­ving force behind our research and devel­op­ment work. In com­bi­na­tion with our state-of-the-art tech­nol­o­gy, our invest­ments, and our ambi­tion to expand, we aim to con­tin­ue to grow sus­tain­ably — in both the paper pack­ag­ing and plas­tics sec­tors,” says Chris­t­ian Kolarik, CEO of the Cov­eris Group.