27 - 29 November 2023
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Why attend Silicone Elastomers World Summit?
Silicone Elastomers World Summit brings together manufacturers, processors, end-users, designers and researchers for a summit-style technical discussion of silicone and TPE elastomer materials, global markets, processing advancements and novel applications.
I worked as Senior Material Engineer in Honeywell Aerospace Yeovil, but I have since taken another position as Obsolescence Case Manager. I started my career in Poland and moved to the UK 15 years ago.
My education includes Chemical Technology and Engineering MSc and Engineering degree. I also attended Leadership training, have experience in aerospace investigation and finished 3D manufacturing training at MIT.
I have experience working as a Chemist and Polymer Scientist in:
- Producing breathable foils for female products and nappies
- Working in analytical laboratories and operated as a mobile testing chemist
- Working in the packaging industry
- Automotive industry
- Aerospace industry
- Obsolescence Management
Clément des Courières is a chemical engineer by training and joined Elkem Silicones (previously Bluestar Silicones) in 2008 as an R&D scientist. He spent 2 years in Germany and 5 years in China supporting Healthcare customers projects in the field of RTV-2 formulations. Clément joined the marketing department in 2016 at the company’s regional headquarters in Lyon France and is now in charge of the Healthcare market for EMEA. He now accumulates a total of 14 years in the field medical-grade silicones for Healthcare applications.
Cátia Ruivo: Cátia Ruivo is a Manager at Turtle Petals, bringing a wealth of experience in the injection molds and molding industry. She holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Industrial Engineering from the University of Aveiro and an Executive MBA in entrepreneurship and innovation from Vienna University in collaboration with MIT. In 2021, Cátia co-founded Turtle Petals with her sister Sandra Ruivo.
Dr Siska DEVARENNES is the polymer specialist at EDF/EDVANCE for new nuclear projects of EPR in France and worldwide. She is supporting projects for all polymers’ issues including civil engineering finishing work (caulking of opening, caulking of joint, cable wrapping for fire protection), seals (door, hatches, sluices gates), and other related topics on polymers. She defended her Ph.D. in 2010 on product development of silicone fire resistant cable, that led to several peer-reviewed articles on flame retardancy of silicones and industrial patents on fireproof coatings. Other works related to silicone products' development in a former job included food & beverage tubing, high performance seals, omniphobic coatings, flame retardant filler additives, silicone ceramisation of residues, and silicone’s structure-properties relationships
Dr. Michael Backer studied chemistry at the Technical University of Munich and at the Humboldt University at Berlin where he obtained his PhD in 1999 in Organometallic (organosilicon) Chemistry.
He joined Dow Corning in 2000 as senior chemist. Today as Senior Research Scientist at DOW Silicone Deutschland GmbH, he is leading development activities of new LSR technologies, as well as supporting commercialization of these products into various markets. His functional experience includes chemical synthesis, material science and industrial applications of silicones in Consumer and Mobility & Transportation Market.
2005 - 2010: M.Sc. Chemistry (Universtit´a degli studi di Milano) 2010 - 2017: Different research position in Germany (Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster and Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg) Since 2017: ALLOD Werksoff GmbH & Co. KG
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.
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.
Stefan works for Aptiv Services Deutschland GmbH, located in Wuppertal. He started at Kabelwerke Reinshagen as a tool maker in 1981. He holds a degree in Machinery Engineering from University Wuppertal and a Degree in Since and Economics of University Dortmund.
He held various positions at Reinshagen and later at Delphi Automotive System in Tool & Process Engineering and Operations.
He was 7 Years Plant manager of Delphi Wuppertal Plant and since 2013 he is responsible for Global manufacturing Engineering for LSR. He was 7 Years Plant manager of Delphi Wuppertal Plant and since 2013 he is responsible for Global manufacturing Engineering for LSR
Dr. Hans Peter Wolf studied Chemistry at the University Frankfurt and completed his Ph-D. in inorganic Chemistry 1988 with the dissertation work about „Gasphase reactions on Raney Nickel and with shock cooled zinc“.
He started his career at Dow Corning in November 1988 and worked as research and TS&D chemist for direct process and automotive market until 1991. From 1992 -1996 he worked in the supply chain organization as Upgrade Engineer and later as Elastomer Production Leader in Wiesbaden. Between 1997- 2007 he was Manager of the application technology and technical service team for silicone rubber in Europe.
From 2008 to 2019 he was Global Research and Development Manager for Silicone Rubber. He retired from DOW end November 2019.
Dr. Ralf-Urs Giesen studied Mechanical Engineering specialized in polymer process engineering at University of Paderborn/Germany, after that he made his PhD at the University of Kassel/Germany. In 2009 he took up employment as scientific assistant in the Institute for Materials Technology, Department Polymer Technology at University of Kassel/Germany. Currently Mr. Giesen is the managing director of the Polymer Application Center (called UNIpace) of the University of Kassel and also the head of the division UNIpace in the department of Polymer Technology.
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.
