Bookmark 11-21-2013

Fraunhofer Centre for Composites Research @ Western Announces Advisory Board

Western University announced the new Advisory Board for the Fraunhofer Project Centre (FPC) for Composites Research @ Western. Charter members of the Advisory Board include game-changing leaders from the fields of chemical and materials engineering, as well as visionary thinkers from the automotive and machinery sectors.

The inaugural FPC @ Western Advisory Board includes:

• Creig Bowland, Global LFT Technical Leader & Senior Research Associate, PPG Fiber Glass
• Michael Connolly, Product Manager, Urethane Composites, Global Business Development Team, Huntsman
• Justin Gammage, Chief Scientist, General Motors of Canada Ltd.
• Klaus Gleich, Senior Research Associate & Manager, Sizing Technology Group, Corporate R&D Technical Center, Johns Manville
• Matthias Graf, Technical Director of the Business Unit Forming, Dieffenbacher GMBH Maschinen- und Anlagenbau Germany
• John Paul Mead, Vice-President, Reaction Process Machinery, Krauss Maffei Corporation

The Advisory Board will provide invaluable insight and resources to influence and further enhance the FPC @ Western leadership team, which includes Institute Managing Director Frank Henning, Deputy Institute Director Andrew Hrymak and Manager of Operations Tobias Potyra. "It is a tremendous privilege to have these leaders offer expertise to what we are building and I know we can deliver globally-significant advancements in composites research with their support," says Henning, also Deputy Director of the Fraunhofer Institute of Chemical Technology (ICT) in Pfinztal, Germany.