At the inaugural speech of Prof. Dr.-Ing. Volker Schöppner, polymer processing, 250 polymer experts from all over Germany were greeted by the Dean of Mechanical Engineers, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Detmar Zimmer and University President Prof. Dr. Nikolaus Risch. After the lecture, which lasted about an hour, personalized plastics salt shaker created via the direct manufacturing process were handed out as presents.

This spring event of the poylmer network in East Wesphalia – Lippe covered the question: Success or failure? Your path to Best-in-Class! Torsten Beinke, CEO of INDEC talked about the topic “Technology management and benchmarking.”

“If it is about polymers, for Germany there won’t be a way around Paderborn anymore,” says University President Prof. Nikolaus Risch. This holds true for the processing lab of the polymer engineers, residing in building P of the university, as well.

About 130 polymer national experts attended the commemorative colloquium of the KTP. The president of the University of Paderborn Prof. Dr. Nikolaus Risch welcomed the guests, who celebrated with Prof. Potente his 70th birthday and states: "You have smoothed the way for the next generation and for this I would like to express my gratitude in the name of the university."

Successful product innovations for enterprises of the polymer production and processings, of the polymer machine construction as well as the lacquer industry result from a profound knowledge of teamwork and interaction of product requirement. Material chemistry, raw material characteristics manufacturing techniques are of equal importance in this context. For this reason seven professors of the Paderborn departments of chemistry and engineering, more precisely polymer science, mechanical process engineering and environmental engineering work together in future times in central institutions.