Hannover, Germany. Stephanie Wagner (54) assumed management of the newly established LIGNA department inside Deutsche Messe AG’s new “Business and Client Gala’s” trade unit on August 1, 2026. As World Director LIGNA, she stories to Hendrik Rawe, 36, who has headed the trade unit as Senior Vice President at Deutsche Messe since July 1, 2026. The trade unit incorporates 4 divisions and two team of workers purposes.
After positions at Deloitte & Touche in Düsseldorf, Gehrke econ in Hannover, and Sartorius AG in Goettingen, Wagner started her occupation within the business honest trade in 2006 as a mission supervisor for BIOTECHNICA. In 2011, she joined LIGNA, additionally as a mission supervisor, and in 2021 took over as Head of LIGNA for the arena’s main business honest for the woodworking and wooden processing trade, in addition to skilled management of the LIGNA workforce. In her new function as World Director, she is increasing her earlier duties for LIGNA to incorporate disciplinary control of the workforce.
The established order of LIGNA as an impartial department additional underscores its significance inside Deutsche Messe’s general business honest portfolio. “The impartial divisional construction displays LIGNA’s significance and world orientation whilst additionally setting up transparent duties for its endured strategic and operational building. Stephanie Wagner is the perfect individual to guide this department. Her a few years of in-depth wisdom of LIGNA, her shut ties to the trade and, because of this, to its shoppers, her strategic and operational experience, and her working out of what LIGNA wishes for the longer term make her the easiest selection for this function,” says Hendrik Rawe, Senior Vice President at Deutsche Messe.
The following LIGNA will happen from Would possibly 10 to fourteen, 2027, on the Hannover Exhibition Grounds.
About LIGNA
LIGNA is the arena’s main business honest for the woodworking and wooden processing trade and has been held each two years since 1975, in odd-numbered years, collectively arranged through Deutsche Messe and the VDMA Woodworking Equipment Affiliation on the exhibition grounds in Hanover. It showcases your complete vary for each the principle and secondary industries: gear, machines and techniques for customized and mass manufacturing, floor era, wood-based panel manufacturing, sawmill era, power from wooden, device elements and automation era, in addition to equipment and gear for forestry era.
For more info on LIGNA, seek advice from www.ligna.de
