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| Herwig Juster |
Why I’m doing this blog?
"Learn why plastics are part of the solution, and not the problem" During
my university study I was already thinking of how to present certain topics of the
exciting world of polymer engineering and science in a more fascinating way.
Back then, blogs were not yet a thing. This changed over the years. Now, my
mission is to present you on a monthly basis current topics of the world ‘made
of plastic’ combined with scientific facts and tools to use in your daily
engineering & corporate life ("information beyond the obvious"). Apart of this, another focus is on
leadership. My army officer training in the Austrian Armed Forces provided me a
good background as well as experiences for presenting topics in the area of
leadership for daily life and business.
A bit of history…
A bit of history…
I started this blog when I was a Ph.D. candidate at JKU Linz, Austria at the Institute ofPolymer Injection Moulding and Process Automation.
The topic of my research was injection moulding of drug delivery systems. In June 2015, I received my Ph.D. degree. Since July 2015, I am active in plastics industry and worked in different roles (f.e. at SABIC as a Scientist in the Global Application Technology team in the Netherlands). From 2017 till 2022 I focused on developing business opportunities in Automotive for Solvay Specialty Polymers, which offers with over 1,500 products the widest range of specialty polymers in the world.
The past 15 month I worked at specialty compounding company at PlastFormance. Here, my main focus was supporting the automotive, LED and E/E industry to select the optimal highly filled compound for applications which need high thermal conductivity or electrical conductivity, as well as other properties such as radiation shielding. Currently, I am back at Syensqo (prev. Solvay) and leading the commercial as well as business development activities at a major Tier-1 supplier by selecting the optimal high performance polymer.
Please feel free to check out my posts or view some examples of my work (reserachgate.net ; talks and conferences). Contact me if you have any questions, ideas or would like to work with me (Polymer Consulting). Also, I invite you to sign up for monthly blog post updates here.
Enjoy!
Best regards,
Herwig