Speakers
Kai K.O. Bär
Managing Director
adphos Innovative Technologies GmbH
Bruckmühler Str. 27
83052 Bruckmühl
Germany
Phone: + 49 8061 395 0
Dr. Kai Bär graduated and completed his PhD in 1989 from the University of Aachen.
From 1989 – 1994 he was involved in the European space shuttle program and served as the leader responsible for the HERMES heat structure tests within the business segment “High Temperature Technology and Installations” at IABG GmbH, Ottobrunn.
Since 1994 he is the co-founder and Managing Director of IndustrieSerVis GmbH in Bruckmühl, which later evolved into adphos.
In 1998 Dr. Bär was honored with the title of “Entrepreneur of the Year”.
Since 2009 Dr. Bär is Managing Director/President of the adphos group, which includes adphos Innovative Technologies GmbH, adphos Digital Printing GmbH, adphos Thermal Processng GmbH.
Massimo Colombo
Sales Manager
Metis Systems S.r.l.
Via del Fontanile Arenato, 295
00163 ROMA ITALY
Phone: +39 06 6615 0066
Frank De jonge
Sales Manager
Italy
My career is dedicated to human and environmental well-being. Circular economy, CO2-reduction, renewable energy, energy efficiency are as important as resource-optimization and selecting the least harmful processes and material for health, life and well-being. Inkjet printing in industrial scale is my passion. Driving new applications in co-operation between end-user, substrate-manufacturer and printer integrator is the future of the printing market. Guiding and supporting the innovators in the printing industry is my speciality. My career started at Olympia, where I started as junior product manager for one of the first laser Printer launched to the European market. I had the opportunity to sell inks and toner from global leaders like Mitsubishi Chemicals, Toshiba, Hitachi and Sensient to a broad number of challenging and exiting digital printing applications from desktop to industrial scale. I managed development and production of inks for industrial printing applications ie. high speed single pass with water-based inks. The highly efficient dryers from adphos ensure reliable evaporation of water and solvents from any printing and coating application.
At Neos, where as the Commercial Director I have the unique opportunity to combine all my more than 30 years professional experience and sell
Bernd Dinkelborg
Sales Manager
KNEHO-LACKE GmbH
Wilberger Str. 98 -100
32805 Horn-Bad Meinberg
Germany
Phone: +49 52 34 84 02 0
Nurten Ergün
President
BTC Bilgi Teknolojileri ve Danışmanlık Hizmetleri Ltd.Şti.
Oruç Reis Mahallesi Tekstilkent Cad.
Tekstilkent Sitesi A5 Blok No: 55
Esenler, Istanbul
Türkiye
Phone: +90 212 4386506
She graduated from Hacettepe University, Department of Economics in 1987. Between 1988 and 1992, she worked in the sales and marketing of high-tech products in international corporate companies. She founded her first company in 1993. With the belief that innovative and new technologies will gain great value, she received training in design and digital technologies in Italy and Germany. She represented many European companies in the textile sector from design to production and color management in digital printing. Nurten Ergün, who is the founding partner of 5 different companies, has gathered all her activities under the roof of BTC Information Technologies, which represents a total of 11 European companies in Turkey. She closely follows the developments in the world by participating in over 200 fairs, both national and international.
She acts as a locomotive in introducing new technologies to the Turkish industry and bringing them into the sector with the Seminars, Workshops and Conferences she organizes regularly. In 2019, the Ministry of Environment and Urbanization organized the “1st Water Intelligence” Conference with the support of İTKİB, İHKİB, TTTSD and invited very valuable European companies that are running for leadership in their fields to this conference where the smart management of WATER was discussed and provided information on sustainable production technologies to over 150 Turkish manufacturers and brands.
Thinking that its long-standing knowledge and experience would also benefit the decorative surfaces, paper and packaging sectors, it made new initiatives and added the distributorship of 5 different European companies to its service area.
In 2024, it will organize the “Surfaces Eurasia” conference in cooperation with TCM Conference in order to lead the industry to get to know new techniques and technologies closely in the field of decorative surfaces. An event that will be organized for the first time in Turkey is celebrating its 25th anniversary in the world.
In this conference, the use of new techniques and technologies in decorative surfaces, the benefits of artificial intelligence will be discussed. As well as energy saving, efficient production, reducing stock costs, responding to customer requests faster and providing unlimited service in colors and quantities with flexible production provided by digital technologies will be also the topics. This event, which will feature very valuable speakers, will be the first event organized in the decorative surfaces sector.
Naci Güngör
Marketing Director
Alim Group
Ömerli Mah. Arefe Sok. NO:21/23
Arnavutköy / Istanbul
Phone: +90 212 670 05 18
Mr. Naci Güngör holds a mechanical engineering degree from Middle East Technical University and an M.B.A. degree from Bilkent University. He has an experience of over 30 years in the wood based panel industry and worked for 12 years as marketing and corporate communications manager at Kastamonu Entegre, which is among the top 5 producers globally. He then joined in 2018 Boyut Edgeband company, a member of Alim Group, as director of marketing and corporate communications.
He acted between 2015-2021 as a member of the Forestry Products Consultative Committee in FAO of United Nations, between 2012-2014 as Board Member of Wood Products Exporters Association in Istanbul and still a member of Foreign Economic Relations Board (DEIK) Business Council Executive Committee.
An Hechermans
Sales Manager
Chiyoda Europa nv
Henry Fordlaan 37
3600 Genk
Belgium
Phone: +32 89 61 07 55
HÜLYA KALAYCIOGLU
Karadeniz Teknik Üniversitesi
Karadeniz Teknik Üniversitesi
61080, Trabzon
Türkiye
Phone: +90 462 377 3000
Karsten Klöpperpieper
Head of Sales and Project Management
Jagenberg Converting Solutions GmbH
Konrad-Zuse-Straße 16
46397 Bocholt
Germany
Phone: +49 2871 2412 500
Moritz Menier
CEO
Classen Group
Werner-von-Siemens-Str. 18-20
56759 Kaisersesch
Germany
Phone: +49 2653 980 0
After his Bachelor and Master in addition to his DBA studies Moritz Menier, is working since over 10 years in the woodworking industry. As a start of his career he was working as a VP of Sales and later CEO of the BMK Group, the largest independent paper impregnation company worldwide. The responsibilities included global sales and purchasing as well as lead responsibility of North America plant.
Mr. Menier served under his previous employment globally. Involved in nearly all laminate and furniture production facilities with melamine papers, especially focused on North and South American market.
As of January 1st he joined the Classen Group, one of the leading manufacturers of laminate flooring, Ceramin (Non-PVC Floor) and doors with over 2.000 employees worldwide and manufacturing sites in Germany and Poland. He is now CEO of Classen Americas, Inc.
Goran Schmidt
Manager
AFRY Deutschland GmbH Borsteler Chaussee 51
22453 Hamburg
Germany
Phone: +49 40 692000
Goran joined AFRY in 2021 after completing his PhD in Bioresource Engineering (University of Hamburg) and is an experienced project manager in the Bioindustry team. At AFRY, Goran focuses on market and product assessments, including route-to-market, strategy and due diligence projects. He leads projects in the bioenergy and waste sectors as well as in the forest industry. Goran is based in AFRY’s Hamburg office.
Christian Zaha
Head of Decor Management
Schattdecor SE
Walter-Schatt-Allee 1-3
83101 Thansau
Germany
Phone: +49 8031 275 0