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“Tablets and sprays are more convenient for
patients, particularly in long-term therapies
which can require continuous drug intake
over weeks or months,” says Dr. Rosario Lizio
about the motivation of the research partners.
Lizio, the PeTrA project coordinator, is also
the head of the Discovery & Development
department of Pharma Polymers, a product
line of the Health Care Business Line of
Evonik specialized in drug delivery systems.
*PeTrA stands for “Platform for efficient epithelial
transport of pharmaceutical applications with inno -
vative particular carrier systems” (Evonik-Funding
Ref. No.: 13N11454) and is part of the BMBF grant
project “Efficient drug transport in biological systems—BioMatVital:
Biotransporters.”
Opening of Advanced Project House in taiwan
Evonik has opened its Light & Electronics
Advanced Project House (APH) in Taiwan.
The new APH is located in Industrial Technology
Research Institute (ITRI) in Hsinchu,
one of Taiwan’s leading research institutes.
“As the first project house Evonik established
outside of Germany, it is quite literally a big
step for Evonik in innovation in Greater China
and Asia,” commented Dr. Dahai Yu, member
of the Executive Board responsible for Asia,
at the opening ceremony held in ITRI. “The
opening of the Light & Electronics APH is a
new stepping stone for entering into new
markets and the globalization of R&D.”
“The market is constantly changing. With
the APH in Taiwan, we aim to generate a link
to the growing light and electronics industry
in Asia, and identify and realize new business
opportunities through joint technical developments
and close hands-on interactions with
our customers,” said Patrik Wohlhauser,
Mem ber of the Executive Board responsible
for innovation management.
Evonik evaluated the technical and market
success probability of potential project topics
such as lighting, displays, touch panels, photovoltaic,
LEDs, and functional coatings. With
its opening, several projects have been started
up with the company’s business units’ and
business lines’ commitment and support. In
addition, a New Business Develop ment function
will be built up to identify new business
opportunities in the electronics industry. The
start focuses on Taiwan, main land China, and
Korea.
“We’re really glad to see that the construction
of office and labs has been completed
at ITRI even faster than planned. For
us, ITRI is the best place to start, as it provides
good infrastructure and a condensed knowhow
platform, as well as the local network.”
said Dr. Michael Cölle, head of the APH,
neWs
during the opening ceremony. “We’ve built
up a technical team made up of local talents,
and the team will gradually increase according
to the project needs in the future. We
expect to foster customer interaction continuously
and generate new business.”
Located in one of the world’s most important
electronics markets, the APH finds a new
way for Evonik to access the market. The
APH is to give rise to a new R&D competence
center for the Group in Asia.
From left to right: Dr. Michael Cölle (Head of
the Advanced Project House Light & electronics),
Dr. Peter nagler (Chief Innovation Officer evonik),
Dr. Ming-Ji wu (Ministry of economic Affairs),
Dr. Dahai Yu (executive Board Member evonik),
Dr. Jonq-Min Liu (executive vice President ItrI),
Dr. Hans-Josef ritzert (President evonik Greater
China), Jia Ming Liu (General Director MCL, ItrI),
Dr. Gerard Berote (President evonik taiwan)
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elements39 Issue 2|2012