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Patrick Ellis has over 60 years experience in the global plastics and rubber industries, where he has worked for a number of multinational polymer producers, including Shell Chemicals, General Electric Plastics, Monsanto Europe, Hercules Europe, Himont, Neste Chemicals and RTP Company. He has been an independent consultant for the last 28 years and has carried out a number of projects for major multinational concerns, such as ExxonMobil, Amoco and General Electric Plastics, as well as European compounders such as Dub Plastiques, British Vita, Polytechs, AlphaGary, Polyplast Mueller, Avient and RTP France.
In addition to the above Patrick Ellis has assisted in the setting up of several compounding operations. He has completed a number of global market studies for Smithers on TPEs and silicone elastomers. He has also written several articles as well as having given presentations on TPEs and silicone elastomers for Smithers.
anager for Elast/LSR/Thermoset machines
I started my education as an apprentice for plastic processing engineer at Engel in 1995. I did my exam in 1998 and switched over to the elast department where I was responsible for customer training, mould start up´s, mould trials, development trials and also troubleshooting in house and at customers all over the world. In 2010 I have done my A-Level exam for plastics technology and switched to the application office. There I was responsible for workouts, project evaluations and also for managing R&D projects. Since September 2014 I’m working in sales department as Senior Area Sales Manager responsible for Elast, LSR, Solid Silicone and Thermoset machines.
François DE BUYL received his PhD in Organometallic Chemistry from University of Brussels, Belgium (1991) and an MSc in Advanced Material Sciences from University of Surrey, UK (2003). He joined Dow Corning Europe in 1991 and worked on various silicone based materials development and applications, such as, e.g., silicone sealant & adhesives, organosilanes, thermoplastics and (silicone) rubbers reinforcements, and coatings, before joining the Dow Silicones Belgium Silicone Elastomers TS&D team back in 2011, helping for instance lighting and optical companies (Tier 1 and OEMs) using silicone in their LED lamps and luminaires designs, with products such as, e.g., optical moldable silicones, optical encapsulants, thermal interface materials, adhesives and coatings for lighting fixtures protection and assembly.
Mikel Schöller earned his laboratory assistant degree at the University of Mainz and worked in the research department of Max Planck institute for Polymer Research several years.
He started his career as laboratory assistant at Chemische Fabrik Budenheim KG ten years ago and is currently finalizing his Bachelor program in Business Chemistry B.SC. at Fresenius University of Applied Sciences.
In his current position as Global Technical Sales Manager, Mikel Schöller is responsible for customer projects and conducts technical trainings at customers around the globe.
Prior to this role, he worked more than five years as Global Business Development Manager driving new innovations and coordinating various projects
in the field of polymerization process control and medical technical materials. His functional experience includes: product development, project management and commercial
expertise in the polymer industry.
Since one year, he is responsible for customer projects in the silicone market and coordinates the market need together with our Innovation and Additives Development(I&AD) Team.
Mr. Timo Gebauer has 9 years of experience in the field of plastic processing. His functional experience includes: Engineering, product management, management
His employment history is as follows:
Education: RWTH Aachen University, IKV, diploma plastic processing
University of Delaware, 2006 Research assistant
RWTH Aachen University, 2007 Research assistant
SIGMA Engineering GmbH, 2009 Application Engineer
SIGMA Engineering GmbH, 2012 Product Manager of the software SIGMASOFT® Virtual Molding
SIGMA Engineering GmbH, 2015 CTO of SIGMA Engineering GmbH, Executive Manager
Kurt Manigatter is CEO of ELMET GmbH, a worldwide well known LSR Mold-and Molding- specialist also known as supplier for LSR dosing systems. Kurt holds a Master of Engineering degree and is graduate of Technical High School, Austria. He started his carrier as designer in a shipyard and was responsible for development of automation of technical processes, to build ships as automatically as possible. After 9 years empirical knowledge he changed to the mechanical industry to develop drive concepts. After additional 5 years he changed into his passion, the mold making and automation branch. 3 years he was employed at the market leader for LSR molds. Then he quit his job and founded ELMET GmbH. He is known as an expert for LSR solutions and frequent lecturer and part of advisory boards.
Joaquim Rius obtained his BSc and MSc in Chemistry with mention in Industrial and Environmental Chemistry at UAB- Autonomous University of Barcelona in 2016. Since then, he has been working in R&D department at Venair Ibérica as a materials chemist and synthetic rubbers formulator. He started his industrial PhD at Venair Ibérica in partnership with IQS-Institut Químic de Sarrià in 2019 under the title “Development of novel dielectric silicones and their application in pressure sensors”. In addition, he has been involved in Computational Research since 2014, focusing on the prediction of reaction thermodynamics and simulation of UV-visible spectra in organometallic clusters.
My name is Kevin Klier I am 30 years old and I come from near Melsungen in Hessen (Germany).
In 2018 I successfully completed my mechanical engineering studies with a focus on materials and design.
Since January 2019 I have been a scientific assistant at the University of Kassel. During my work at the University of Kassel I am engaged in the processing of silicone rubbers. I started with the processing of liquid silicone in the injection molding process, the extrusion of solid silicone rubber and the simulation of this process. Since the beginning of this year I am working on the additive manufacturing of liquid silicone rubber.
Beate Ganter studied Chemistry at the RWTH Aachen and received her Diploma in 1995. She stayed in Aachen at the Department of Inorganic Chemistry and researched during her PhD in the field of metalorganic complexes. After she received her PhD she joined in 1998 the Bayer AG (later GE Bayer Silicones, today Momentive Performance Materials) as R&D Chemist for the development of Heat Cured Rubbers. Since 2008 she is a Project Manager in the Marketing Department of the BU Elastomers. She currently focuses on the needs for the next generation of Liquid Silicone Rubbers.
Patrick Beyer studied chemistry at the University of Mainz, Germany, where he obtained his PhD in 2007 in polymer chemistry with a thesis on "Liquid Crystalline Elastomers". In 2007 he joined the Dow Silicones Deutschland GmbH, where he is working as a Research Scientist in the field of Liquid Silicone Rubber. In this role he is leading research and development of new LSR and Fluoro LSR technologies, as well as supporting commercialization of these products into various markets and applications.
- Senior Director Technology since 2019 at Sumitomo SHI Demag
- Education: Study of mechanical engineering with the focus on plastics processing at the University of Paderborn
- Establishing development teams at several (3) companies within plastics, automotive and glass industry with changing the mindset from product focus to application focus
Since 1993 – starting as an R&D Engineer for the Heraeus Instruments GmbH – Stefan Betz is involved in the heating technology and especially in heating and drying ovens.
During his time at ThermoFisher Scientific he was responsible for automated CO2 incubators serving in pharmaceutical research as a Product Line Manager.
At Weiss Technik GmbH he is now the Product Manager for the heat technology business area and has the role of a Business Development Manager for the microwave technology.
He also oversees the development activities of the heat technology group at Weiss including government funded projects.
Recently Weiss opened their new innovation building in Reiskirchen when Stefan took the role for managing the heat technology technical centre.
The passion for heat you can also find in one of his hobbies which is micro brewing but also his mountain bike frame was properly cured by heat.
Cordula Wieland, Head of Key Account Management and Expert Sales Technical Appliances, KraussMaffei Technologies After her high school graduation in Germany Cordula Wieland completed successfully an apprenticeship as an industrial business manager at Siemens AG in Munich and stayed for additional six years as conference manager. Subsequently she studied process engineering for plastics and synthetic materials at the university for applied sciences Munich and completed her studies with a diploma thesis on the subject of “Coextrusion foils for identification cards” in a leading technology company. Positions as development engineer, project manager and finally product manager followed. In January 2015 Mrs. Wieland started to work as product and technology manager for the KraussMaffei Group and concentrated on small and medium injection molding machines as well as on thermoset and silicone technologies. Since August 2020 Cordula Wieland is Head of Expert Sales and Key Account Management for Technical Appliances. Co-Authors - Markus Landl, Head of International Business Development, RICO GROUP GmbH - Dr. Andreas Bacher, Technical Manager, Wacker Chemie AG.
Anthony PELLAFOL was born in 1988 in Grenoble France. After an Engineering science high-school degree in 2007, he began his apprenticeship course. In 2009, he obtained an industrial product design and CAD high national diploma in apprenticeship with PHUSIS company (company specialized in ancillaries and absorbable screws for knee and shoulder surgery). In 2012, he obtained an Industrial and mechanical engineer diploma, in apprenticeship with STERNE Company. After 3 years of professional experience in the Grenoble area (Industrial engineer and quality manager), Anthony came back to STERNE in 2015.
Now R&D manager of STERNE Company, Anthony is a bit of a “mad scientist” performing in innovative materials or process problems resolution like UV curing or 3D printing.
Oliver studied Mechanical Engineering and Plastics Technology at RWTH Aachen / IKV in Germany and received his diploma in 1990. He started his professional career at Dätwyler / Switzerland as a project leader for rubber precision parts for the Automotive Industry. In 1996, Oliver joined DuPont-Dow Elastomers as Market Development Manager for Automotive. Between 2001 and 2003 he was the commercial director at Omnexus in Europe. In 2004 he joined Momentive Performance Materials in Automotive Marketing for Elastomers and became the Global Marketing Leader of this segment. Since 2020 he supports Sigma Engineering in Strategic Marketing.
Ms.Ekaterina Gorbunova Joined OCSiAl in 2014 Ms.Gorbunova is responsible for global product development of nanotube solutions in field of Elastomers.
Prior to OCSiAl, Ekaterina gained experience in business development of petrochemical, oil, gas & mining corporations, including international trade. Graduated from Siberian Federal University (Russia) as a master degree in Applied Economics and Moscow business school (Russia) as a Project manager.
Dietmar Waizenauer received his degree ‘Bachelor of Science in Engineering’ at the University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria.
He has over 17 years of experience in LSR processing and gained a lot of know-how which includes development and design of fully automatic production cells for LSR, HCR and Rubber products as well as the development of the process equipment, sales and marketing.
His employment history:
NEXUS Elastomer Systems GmbH (former Nexus Automation GmbH), Eberstalzell, Austria, 2007 to present
Founder, Managing Partner and CBDO
Responsible for technical sales, product and new business development.
HEFNER Elastomere Technik GmbH, Weisskirchen, Austria, 2001 to 2007,
Head of Automation Department
Development and design of Turn Key production cells for processing LSR material.
VOEST ALPINE Stahl AG, Linz, Austria, 1999 to 2001
Electrical Maintenance for Galvanizing Plants / Steel Coating Lines
Michael Schwab is a Sales Engineer and the Head of the Technical Center at UTH GmbH from Fulda/Germany – an internationally well-known machine manufacturer and provider of innovative customer-specific solutions for the rubber/silicone and the adhesive/sealant industries. UTH's core competencies include roll-ex® gear pump technology, which is also the basis for innovations in silicone processing. After completing his degree in Process Technology in Magdeburg (Germany) Michael started his career in machine manufacturing with a focus on drying technology and was then active in this field for six years. In his current role as Head of Technical Center Michael engineers and develops machine specific solutions in close cooperation with UTHs customers.
Andreas Schäfert joined the Wilhelm Weber GmbH in Esslingen in 2018. He holds a Diploma in Applied Physics of TU Munich as well as a MBA of Collège des Ingénieurs in Paris. Earlier steps in his professional career were at USHIO Group, GE Healthcare and EVONIK Industries. As Director Business Development he is in charge for innovative solutions and applications in the field of injection molding in the medical sector and the realisation of the ZIM supported research projects, publishing also about recent technology developments.
• September 2019: Master thesis on the
synthesis of silicones for 3D printing
• Since October 2019: PhD student
• Since January 2021: Exist founder scholarship for the spin-off eSiprint
Alexander Roloff studied Chemistry at the Humboldt-University Berlin, Germany, were he also obtained his PhD in bioorganic chemistry with an emphasis on the development of nucleic acid-templated chemical reactions untilized in genotyping. Afterwards, he conducted postdoctoral reserach at the University of California, San Diego, focussing on organic nanomaterials and their interactions with biological systems. Following a second postdoc in analytical chemistry at the German Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing (BAM) he moved to the German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR) in Berlin. Here, he was appointed head of the Unit Product Analytics, which also hosts the German National Reference Laboratory for Food Contact Materials.
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