The SKZ is supported by FSKZ e.V., the Association for the Promotion of the Plastics Centre. Members include successful companies in the plastics industry and related sectors. Membership in the association means the opportunity to fight for top positions in the team - to network, to benefit from the excellent contacts in terms of content and to be able to represent plastics-specific interests more sustainably with a successful team.
The Association for the Promotion of the Plastics Centre is the umbrella organisation of the SKZ. It was founded in 1961 as a non-profit association and aims to promote research and development as well as education and training. The FSC has steering and control units, so-called committees, which monitor and control the strategies and activities of the association and advise the management and institute management. The tasks of the committees and their honorary members are oriented towards the welfare of the FSC and its societies.
The work of the committees is divided into the following areas:
Board of Directors | Board of Trustees | Advisory Board
SKZ – KFE gGmbH
Friedrich-Bergius-Ring 22, 97076 Würzburg
Fax: +49 931 4104-717 • kfe@skz.de
CEO:
Dr. rer. nat. Thomas Hochrein
Assistance: Agnes Beck
Tel.: +49 931 4104-434
SKZ – Testing GmbH
Friedrich-Bergius-Ring 22, 97076 Würzburg
Fax: +49 931 4104-273 • testing@skz.de
CEO:
Dr.-Ing. Gerald Aengenheyster
Deputy Managing Director:
Dr. Jürgen Wüst
Assistance: Birgit Nauland
Tel.: +49 931 4104-142
SKZ – Cert GmbH
Frankfurter Straße 15-17, 97082 Würzburg
Fax: +49 931 4104-320 • cert@skz.de
CEO:
Dipl.-Ing. Robert Schmitt
Assistance: Gabi Hemmerich
Tel.: +49 931 4104-310
SKZ – KTT GmbH (Administration)
Frankfurter Straße 15-17, 97082 Würzburg
Fax: +49 931 4104-177 • info@skz.de
CEO:
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Martin Bastian
Assistance: Angela Rügamer
Tel.: +49 931 4104-443
is the highest authority of the SKZ and makes important strategic and operational decisions. It is predominantly made up of representatives from the plastics producing and plastics processing industries, the plastics machinery industry and the trades. The honorary members of the Board of Directors are elected in and by the FSKZ General Assembly for four years.
The Administrative Board coordinates the tasks of the Association and ensures the implementation of the resolutions of the General Assembly. Among other things, it appoints the Institute Director and the Managing Directors of the SKZ societies.
Prof. Dr. Pauline Iden
Chairwoman Board of Directors
Helmut Gries
Vice Chairman Board of Directors
Sandra Füllsack
motan holding GmbH
Heinz Gaub
Norbert Nobbe
Pöppelmann Holding GmbH & Co.KG
Dr.-Ing. Arno Rogalla
Rogalla Consulting
Dr.-Ing. Oliver Schnerr
Kistler Instrumente AG
Dr.-Ing. Johannes Weber
Hans Weber Maschinenfabrik GmbH
Marcus Wirthwein
Wirthwein AG
has the task of advising and supporting the Board of Directors and the Executive Board in important decisions. It is intended to strengthen relations between the public and various sectors of SKZ society and to promote public interest in SKZ's research and educational topics. The Board of Trustees is formed - on an honorary basis - by well-known personalities from business, science, politics and the public sector.
Helmut Gries (Chairman)
gwk Gesellschaft Wärme Kältetechnik mbH
Amadou Ba
IPT Institut für Prüftechnik Gerätebau GmbH & Co.KG
Dr. Pia Beckmann
Beckmann Consulting
Dr. Christine Bötsch
Stadträtin Stadt Würzburg
Prof. Dr. Vladimir Dyakonov
ZAE Bayern e.V.
Dr.-Ing. Holger Findeisen
ZF Friedrichshafen AG
Prof. Dr. Alfred Forchel
Präsident der Julius Maximilians-Universität Würzburg
Dr. Guiscard Glück
BASF SE
Andreas Hertsch
Kunststoff Information Verlagsgesellschaft mbH
Dr. Helmut Hilger
GEORG FISCHER Piping Systems Ltd.
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Christian Hopmann
Institut für Kunststoffverarbeitung IKV - RWTH Aachen
Albrecht Huber
Leistritz Extrusionstechnik GmbH
Prof. Dr. Ralf Jahn
Hauptgeschäftsführer der
IHK Würzburg-Schweinfurt
Klaus Jasper
Dr. Karlhorst Klotz
Hanser Verlag GmbH & Co. KG
Thorsten Kühmann
Fachverband Kunststoff- und Gummimaschinen im VDMA
Paul Lehrieder
Mitglied des Deutschen Bundestages
Prof. Dr. Robert Luxenhofer
Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg
Luis Oberrauch
Finstral AG
Dr. Joachim Schätzle
fischerwerke GmbH & Co. KG
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Volker Schöppner
Universität Paderborn Institut für Kunststofftechnik Fakultät für Maschinenbau
Oberbürgermeister Christian Schuchardt
Stadt Würzburg
Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Gerhard Sextl
Institutsleiter Fraunhofer-Institut für Silicatforschung ISC
Christoph Stamm
BÄNNINGER Kunststoff-Produkte GmbH
Dr.-Ing. Michael Stöger
REHAU AG + Co.
Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Kurt Wagemann
DECHEMA Gesellschaft für Chemische Technik und Biotechnologie e.V.
Dr. Joachim Wekerle
Wirtschaftsministerium Baden-Württemberg Leiter Fachreferat Werkstoffe
Dr. Otto Wiesheu
ehemaliger Bayerischer Staatsminister für Wirtschaft, Infrastruktur, Verkehr und Technologie
Peter Wolf
Beck Elektrotechnik GmbH
Its honorary members advise the management on technical and scientific issues relating to the individual business units. The members of the advisory board are to inform the SKZ about technical trends and give suggestions as to the direction in which the scientific work should develop. In order to ensure the high quality and productivity in the long term, the work of the institute is accompanied scientifically and technically by the advisory board. The Advisory Board has the right and the duty to make suggestions to the Board of Directors in order to maintain and improve the SKZ's service portfolio in line with market requirements.
Representatives of the SKZ:
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Martin Bastian
Dr. rer. nat. Thomas Hochrein
Dr. rer. nat. Johann Erath
Martin Würtele (Chair of the Advisory Board)
KraussMaffei Technologies GmbH
Dr. Tobias Pfefferkorn (Vice-Chairman)
BASF SE
Dr. Peter Attenberger
Vinnolit Kunststoff GmbH
Dr.-Ing. Erwin Bürkle
Thomas Frank
FRANK GmbH
Dr. Wolfgang Frings
Simona AG
Hartmut Henneken
Jowat SE
Prof. Ansgar Jaeger
Hochschule für angewandte Wissenschaften
Würzburg-Schweinfurt
Dr. Karl Kuhmann
Evonik Resource Efficiency GmbH
Dirk A. Petry
Georg Fischer Piping Systems
Regierungsdirektor Dietmar Schneyer
Bayer. Staatsministerium für Wirtschaft, und Medien, Energie und Technologie
Dr. Joachim Starke
BMW Group
Dr.-Ing. Michael Szerman
VEKA AG
Albert Walter
SABIC Deutschland GmbH & Co. KG
SKZ – Technology Center
Friedrich-Bergius-Ring 22
97076 Würzburg
Tel. +49 931 4104-0