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Wagner Systems announces management transition

Wagner Systems Inc., a provider of products for the application of powder and liquid coatings based in Germany with U.S. headquarters in Elgin, Ill., has hired Martin Rola as general manager. He succeeds Matthias Koehler, who will remain with the company until mid-2016 and then assume a new leadership role in Germany.

Rola will transition with Koehlerover the next few months to assume the role of President Americas for the Industrial Solutions business at the start of the new fiscal year. This new role will cover all of North and South America.

Rola comes to Wagner from Apex Tool Group where he was part of the Global Power Tools Division since 2011. He has a master’s degree in electrical engineering from Stanford University and a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from the University of Michigan.