PlAStICS – AN INtRIGUING lOVE StORy? - PlasticsEurope

Dr Thomas Roemer
Vice President, Industry Platform Building & Construction,
Bayer MaterialScience
Dr Thomas Roemer, born 1978, married with three children, was educated both in Germany
(Erlangen-Nuremberg and Essen) and the US (University of Pittsburgh).
Thomas Roemer entered Bayer in September 1999 as a trainee in the Marketing Department, becoming the
assistant to a Board Member of Polyurethanes in 2003. He was named Director Sales South East Europe
& MD Serbia, in Belgrade in 2005, where he stayed till 2009 when he rose to become VP Global Supply
Manager Isocyanates.
Since September 2011, Roemer is the VP Industry Platform Building & Construction at Bayer MaterialScience AG.
Daniel Behrens
Marketing Manager, Healthcare, Ticona
Since October 2001, Daniel Behrens is working as Marketing Manager Healthcare Europe at Ticona,
Sulzbach, offering specific “Medical Technology” Plastic compounds to support this highly dedicated
market. Prior to that position he worked for an Automotive Tier 1 supplier (Kautex-Textron, Bonn) as
Project manager for Plastic Blowmolded Fuel Systems (1996 – 2001). His first job was at Eppendorf
GmbH, a Biotech firm specialised on liquid handling for laboratory devices and disposables within
the R&D department.
Having a Masters Degree in plastics engineering, Daniel Behrens combines 20 years of plastics
experience with a deep market insight into the needs for plastic materials within the Healthcare Market.
Hanane Taidi
Head of Communications, PlasticsEurope
Hanane Taidi is Head of Communications in PlasticsEurope, the pan-European Association of
Plastics Producers. Hanane holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in English Language and Literature from
Ablemalik Essaadi University in Morocco and a Master of Arts in English Literature from Charles de
Gaulle, Lille III University in France. For the past 13 years, she gained extensive experience working
across a wide range of communication disciplines and is currently responsible for co-ordinating a
multi-million euro internal and external communications programme covering 27 countries. This
includes corporate communications management, co-operation with PlasticsEurope’s EU advocacy
programmes and public relations; counselling and support to PlasticsEurope’s different centres of
competences.
Hanane is also a certified translator with the Brussels court of justice. She speaks English, French,
Spanish, Arabic fluently and has a good understanding of Dutch.
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