Who we are
Founded in 1962, Liveo Research is a top global producer of materials for primary packaging in the pharmaceutical and medical industry, as well as special applications such as shrink sleeve labels. Headquartered in Basel, Switzerland, it has production sites in Boetzingen and Staufen (Germany), Delaware (USA), Singapore, and Taicang (China). Liveo Research currently has approximately 1,000 employees worldwide. In addition to a broad product portfolio of packaging materials, the company also offers its customers value-added services like “LiveoOptima™” that support them to find the best, sustainable packaging solutions.
Our objective is to serve our customers’ requirements in the most cost efficient and innovative way while enhancing shareholder value. Our customers are our priority. We strive to deliver the right solutions to everyday problems, enabling our customers to focus on growth and development. Liveo Research cultivates a customer-centric solutions culture that involves all employees while ensuring an ever safer working environment.
Innovation is key to what we do, whether it’s in relation to new products or new processes and practices. It is our strong belief that this focus on innovation will enable our customers’ success, as well as our own, enhancing mutual trust and reliable, long-lasting partnerships.
Success is made by humans. In our case, approximately 1000 employees around the world including the men who have leadership responsibility for our team:
Executive Committee – Board
Dr. Carsten Heldmann
CEO
Carsten is a successful leader with more than 25 years of experience in a wide range of global manufacturing businesses, in the chemical and plastics industry. He graduated in Chemistry and received a Ph.D. in Polymer Chemistry from the Max-Planck-Institute for Polymer Research in Mainz. Before joining Liveo Research in May 2020, Carsten was President & CEO of the €1.1bn Food and Consumer Division of Klöckner Pentaplast. As CEO of Kalle group, an international manufacturer of casings for processed meat products, functional food ingredients and sponge cloths, he delivered significant improvements in EBITDA performance and led the successful sale of the company to a new investor. Prior to this, from June 2005 to February 2014, Carsten covered several Executive roles in Fiberweb, a leader in nonwoven fabrics, as Chief Technology Officer, President of Consumer Fabrics supplying the FMCG industry, and finally as President of the Technical Fabrics Division. He also served as an Executive Director on the Board of Fiberweb plc. In his previous roles at Celanese AG, Clariant AG and Hoechst AG he held various positions in R&D and Strategic Marketing.
Pharma Packaging Innovations
Andreas Pfefferle
Business Unit Head
Andreas has over 35 years of experience in the plastics and packaging industry and held multiple leadership roles in regional and global sales functions within Liveo Research. For more than 10 years he has been leading our Pharma Business as Global Business Head/MD. With his long standing customer relationships in conjunction with our material and service offerings, he is ensuring continuous top- and bottom-line growth.
Specialty Films Solutions
Dr. Steve Döring
Business Unit Head
Steve is a results-driven leader with over 20 years of leadership experience in the chemical, manufacturing, and private equity industries. Steve has a degree and doctorate in chemistry from the University of Münster, a degree in economics from FernUniversität Hagen and further training in corporate finance at renowned universities. After a stay as a postdoctoral researcher at Scripps Research (California / USA), he started his professional career at Henkel in Germany and Asia. Before becoming Managing Director of Germany-based Metall-Chemie, he was successfully responsible for New Business Development at Cognis (today: BASF SE). Subsequently, Steve was CEO of the German companies Leuna Tenside GmbH, inprotec AG (now part of the ICI Group) and APK AG (now part of LYB Recycling GmbH).