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Developed in the project house
amongst others:
Coated rubber granu late as infill
for artificial turf (above)
PLEXIGLAS® film with Fresnel
lenses on the surface. These kinds
of microstructured films have
been used for such applications
as solar concentrators in photo -
voltaics (below)
Flexible printed circuit boards
based on polymer films (right)
experts, controllers, developers, application engineers—
colleagues who were or would be involved with the project
in one form or another. “We always prepared very stringently
for this meeting, and this also meant concrete tasks
for the participants.” Thanks to these almost monthly meetings,
the business unit was always up to date on the latest
informa tion.
“Mentors” guarantee successful transfer
In Ackermann‘s estimation, the critical phase of a project
house is the transfer of project results to the Group. “We
discussed transferring results as early as the middle of the
third year.“ The two central questions were where they
should transfer the results and when. The proven approach
had been that management would allow the project house to
conduct its research until the end of the three-year period
and only then initiate the actual transfer. This phase had
now ended in the middle of the year. Ackermann himself did
not become head of Business Development for the Acrylic
Polymers Business Line until May 2010.
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