Dr. Karl-Heinz Schweikart

Application development and customer consulting digital and other inks / Initiation and execution of (customer) projects / Global (cross-regional and cross-sectional) information and know how transfer / Representing the company at fairs, conventions and organizations

Development of digital inks (solvent based and waterborne, CYMK + spot colors) for textile, packaging + label, food contact (paper napkin) and special applications / Successful market introduction of the SYNTRAJET P and T ranges / Customer joint developments / Cross-regional (international) and cross-functional coordination of development projects, including production / Supervision of lab staff and master student / Initiation of patent applications

Development of novel digital inks for textile applications (reactive dyes, disperse dyes, pigments) / Application testing in digital printing (storage stability, printability, durability) on different textile substrates / Customer joint projects

Implementation and leading of a chemical research lab / Product developments in lab, pilot, and production scale / Product transfer between different production sites / Application testing / Project management (Lean Sigma stage-gate process) / Product Expert Dispersing Agents for the Division Pigments & Additives / Re-formulation of 2 ranges of aqueous pigment dispersions addressing new regulatory constraints

Formulation of diverse textile chemicals (such as degreasing agents, UV stabilizers) and dyes (acid, reactive, disperse) / Lab development, qualification and transfer to production in Switzerland, Indonesia and China / de-dusting / spray drying / fluidized bed granulation / color management

Project management of diverse pigment basic research projects / Responsibility for external cooperations (universities, research institutes, other companies)

Formulation and application tests of aqueous pigment dispersions for inkjet applications (SOHO, Wide Format) / Lab development and transfer to production / Customer joint developments and projects / Succesful introduction of the HOSTAJET PT range (CYMK) to the market

In the group of Prof. Dr. J. L. Lindsey: Synthesis and characterization of porphyrin-phthalocyanine tripledecker sandwich compounds / Preparation of monolayers on Si surfaces as molecular data storage devices

In the group of Prof. Dr. Dr. h. c. M. Hanack: Phthalocyanines / Synthesis and characterization / Preparation of thin layers / OLEDs