Dr. Dieter Buhl

Globally responsible for technical sales of industrial packaging (IBC, steel/plastic drums, jerry cans), external and internal customers. Management of packaging portfolio, technical customer service, SAP master data.

P&L responsibility for 3 manufacturing sites and head office Germany. Reconditioning of IBC, recycling of PEHD. Responsible for operations & logistics, sourcing, sales, customer service, SHEQ. Project lead for investment project in 2019/2020 (budget: 5Mio €). Managing Director NCG Europe GmbH (2015-2020) and NCG Buchtenkirchen GmbH (2016-2020).

Small plastic packaging, blow moulding, 24/7 organization. Responsible for costs, quality & delivery, employee development. Restructuring of organziation, implementation of PDCA culture.

Automotive Industry > Plastic Fuel Systems, SCR Tank Systems & Under-the-Hood-Components, Blow Molding. Responsible for manufacturing, maintenance, logistics and project development within production plant Wissen.

Automotive Industry > Continious Improvement (Lean, DMAIC, DFSS). Responsible BB for Asian plants in China (Changchun, Shanghai, Guangzhou) and Japan (Hiroshima), >12 months presence in Asia for driving profitability, process improvement and cultural change. VSM, Kaizen workshops with focus on Lean, TPS.

Automotive Industry: Research & Development. Standardization of components and systems. Project lead for supplier partnering project ZEV. Intense OEM contacts, especially DE/JP. Global responsibility of the company's intellectual property, especially patents, licenses, development contracts, NDA/CDA.

Heterogeneous Catalysis: basic testing and scale-up experiments for converting terpenes to p-cymene under influence of Pd-silica catalysts.