Coming onboard Scheuch Asia
Jan Eike Graeff has recently joined Scheuch Asia as its new managing director, taking over Andreas Köck, who paved the way when the Scheuch Asia subsidiary was first established in Bangkok in 2015. Köck will be returning to Austria to manage international sales at the Scheuch headquarter.
Jan Eike Graeff is a global citizen with roots in Hamburg, Germany. He has been living in Asia since 2008, having worked in China before moving to Thailand in 2012. He has been trained as a mechanical engineer and project manager for EPC projects and has a wealth of experience in building and servicing flue gas cleaning, biomass, waste and wind facilities as well as managing turnkey engineering companies of energy facilities in several European countries, China, Taiwan, Thailand and other South East Asian countries.
He first encountered Scheuch when he was representing a client of Scheuch to close a contract to supply a flue gas cleaning system for a new RDF waste to energy power plant in Phichit, Thailand, which is now under construction.
Priorities in the coming year
Taking the helm of Scheuch Asia, Graeff is all set for his new role and has set a few priorities, “The new aspects we will focus on in the coming months are to further strengthen our position in energy projects, namely waste to energy and biomass energy power plants. We are also aiming to localise a part of the engineering and supply chain, aiming to bring down cost and delivery times for our clients whilst offering more capabilities to manage projects with increased local content. Besides new build projects, we see potential to upgrade existing exhaust gas cleaning systems when the governments in Asia will adapt emission regulations for better protection of health and the environment.”
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Jan Eike Graeff (left), the new managing director of Scheuch Asia shaking hands with Andreas Köck, the outgoing managing director who has led Scheuch Asia since its establishment in 2015 (Image to be credited to Scheuch Asia)