Herma has introduced Marcus Gablowski as the company’s first chief sustainability officer, and he will head up the sustainability management department. His primary tasks initially include a strategy that will allow Herma to become completely climate-neutral by 2040 – taking into account the entire supply chain.

In addition, Herma has also joined the United Nations Global Compact, the world’s largest sustainability initiative.

Gablowski has been with the company since 2004, where he has mainly worked in process engineering and development. Most recently, he managed the adhesive development and special coatings department in the Self-adhesive Materials division at Herma. In this role, he advanced a number of environmental and sustainability issues on the product side in recent years. This includes, for example, special label adhesive that support closed material circuits when recycling plastic packaging and optimizes the use of reusable systems.

“Marcus Gablowski has a strong understanding of complex process-related relationships. In addition, his extensive experience comes from numerous solution-oriented product developments, in which aspects of sustainability have become increasingly important in recent years. He has made a decisive contribution to the fact that Herma is perceived as a leading player in the field of self-adhesive materials when it comes to sustainable solutions,” says Guido Spachtholz, managing director, Herma. “These are the best conditions in order to be able to act effectively, convincingly and credibly as CSO for the entire Herma Group.”

Gablowski adds, “I am very happy in this role, partly because I am truly convinced that we need to be much quicker and more effective as a company in this area. I have full confidence that we can succeed in turning things around. Herma has already taken some important steps in this area. We are not starting from scratch. But it is also clear that the biggest and most challenging stretch is still ahead of us. With a well thought-out plan, we will be well prepared for this.”