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Didier Brackenier is a Vice-President at EFESO and member of the Northern Europe Management team. He has solid experience working in a variety of fields and industries, with a specific focus on progression management. His areas of expertise include translating strategy into action, supporting successful transitions, managing large scale transformations with substantial impact, setting upRead more

Philipp Kohn is VP Global Operations – Fire Retardant Additives & MD at Huber Engineered Materials, Martinswerk GmbH. Experienced Senior Executive with a demonstrated history of working in the automotive and process industry. International experience since more than 25 years. Skilled in Supply Chain & Operations Management, Continuous Improvement, End to End Lean Manufacturing andRead more

I received my bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering in Jordan. I continued my master thesis with the topic “Hydrogen-Selective Microfabricated Metallic Membrane” at the institute of Microtechnology Mainz – Germany (Fraunhofer IMM). Later, I received my Ph.D. Doctorate degree at the Chair for Thermal Process Engineering at the Technical University of Kaiserslautern with the topicRead more

Marius Lawall is Engineer Manufacturing Leadership Program at Grace Europe Holding GmbH.Read more

Through various positions in process analytical engineering, plant management and process automation in polymer industry I have gained extensive experience in optimizing processes and operations as well as establishing continuous improvement and motivating teams to strive for efficiency. In addition, I enjoyed several years of international work experience in multinational & interdisciplinary teams, hierarchical levelsRead more

My Colleague Peter Van Overschee, the KULeuven and I started the company in 1995. Our initial focus was to help companies to optimize their assets with better control solutions (tuning, control structures, APC, training, etc). Today that is still what IPCOS stands for. Boosting the performance of an existing plant by making it better fromRead more

Grace is a leading specialty chemicals company with focus areas in Silicas, Adsorbents, and Catalysts for the Refining and Polymer industry. Klaus Weckheuer is the leader of the largest manufacturing site of W.R. Grace with approx. 900 employees. His key responsibilities are further strengthening of the Grace safety performance and the relentless optimization of theRead more

Christoph Attila Kun joined BASF SE Ludwigshafen in 2011 as a maintenance engineer. After various optimization projects in maintenance, he took over the development and management of the SAP Plant Maintenance Services unit in 2013. In 2018, he moved to the Digitalization unit, where he took over the management of the Global Digital Asset MasterRead more

Joachim Gorzel is Vice President Digital Cement Operations at Heidelberg Materials. He joined the company in 1993 as an Automation and Electrical Engineer. Since then, working on various positions and in various responsible roles at Heidelberg Cement company, (today: Heidelberg Materials). Starting from an engineer position in a maintenance department at a cement plant. BetweenRead more

Enterprise leader who has brought value to organizations by helping them implement solutions that solve actual problems they face in their day-to-day operations. Benjamin has helped customers all over the work, in Asia Pacific, North and South America, and now in Europe. Benjamin is based in Berlin Germany and has many years of experience inRead more