Dr. Stefan Van den Branden

Responsible for innovation in carton sleeves and closures for aseptic food and beverage packaging. Mechanical and software engineering for filling lines. Intellectual property management.

Responsible for synthesis, application testing, chemical analysis, and process up scaling of new resins, crosslinkers and additives for coatings, paints and inks: radiation curing, waterborne, solventborne or powder systems.

Responsible for synthesis, analysis and up scaling of resins, crosslinkers and inks for coatings, paints and inks: waterborne, solventborne and powder systems for ambient, thermal and radiation curing.

Responsible for application testing, formulation development end technical support to customers for the Liquid Coating Resins business unit: acrylics, polyurethanes, epoxies, alkyds, polyesters, phenolics and amino resins.

Responsible for technology exploration, new product development and production process support as well as analytical services, regulatory affairs and intellectual property: production and coating of bioriented polypropylene (BOPP) and cellulose films for labels, packaging, over wrap and security applications

Responsible for application testing, formulation development and technical support to customers for graphics applications using radiation curable resins

Responsible for application testing, formulation development and technical support to customers for industrial coatings using radiation curable resins

Responsible for application testing, formulation development and technical support to customers in Benelux, Germany and Austria for radiation curable resins

Responsible for synthesis and upscaling of radiation curable resins