The SKZ is supported by FSKZ e.V. (Association for SKZ). Members include successful companies in the plastics industry and related sectors. Membership in the association means the opportunity to fight for top positions in the team - to network, to benefit from the excellent contacts in terms of content and to be able to represent plastics-specific interests more sustainably with a successful team.
FSKZ e.V. is the umbrella organisation of SKZ. It was founded in 1961 as a non-profit association and aims to promote research and development as well as education and training. The FSC has steering and control units, so-called committees, which monitor and control the strategies and activities of the association and advise the management and institute management. The tasks of the committees and their honorary members are oriented towards the welfare of the FSC and its societies.
The work of the committees is divided into the following areas:
Supervisory Board | Board of Trustees | Advisory Board
SKZ – KFE gGmbH
Friedrich-Bergius-Ring 22, 97076 Würzburg
kfe@skz.de
Managing Director:
Dr. rer. nat. Thomas Hochrein
Executive Assistant: Merlin Fehrer
Tel.: +49 931 4104-2302
Deputy Managing Director:
Dr. rer. nat. Benjamin Baudrit
Executive Assistant: Nadine Ün
Tel.: +49 931 4104-433
SKZ – Testing GmbH
Friedrich-Bergius-Ring 22, 97076 Würzburg
testing@skz.de
Managing Director:
Dr. rer. nat. Thomas Hochrein
Executive Assistant: Merlin Fehrer
Tel.: +49 931 4104-2302
SKZ – Cert GmbH
Friedrich-Bergius-Ring 22, 97076 Würzburg
cert@skz.de
Managing Director:
Dipl.-Ing. Robert Schmitt
Executive Assistant: Gabi Hemmerich
Tel.: +49 931 4104-310
FSKZ e. V.
Friedrich-Bergius-Ring 22, 97076 Würzburg
info@skz.de
Managing Director:
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Martin Bastian
Executive Assistant: Angela Rügamer
Tel.: +49 931 4104-443
is the highest authority of the SKZ and makes important strategic and operational decisions. It is predominantly made up of representatives from the plastics producing and plastics processing industries, the plastics machinery industry and the trades. The honorary members of the Supervisory Board are elected in and by the FSKZ General Assembly for four years.
The Supervisory Board coordinates the tasks of the Association and ensures the implementation of the resolutions of the General Assembly. Among other things, it appoints the Institute Director and the Managing Directors of the SKZ societies.
Prof. Dr. Julia Pauline Iden (Chairwoman)
nanid scientific consulting
Marcus Wirthwein (Deputy Chairman)
Wirthwein AG
Helmut Gries
Helmut Gries Consulting
Guido Frohnhaus
ARBURG GmbH + Co KG
Sandra Füllsack
motan holding GmbH
Norbert Nobbe
Pöppelmann Holding GmbH & Co.KG
Ulrich Reifenhäuser
Reifenhäuser GmbH & Co. KG
Dr.-Ing. Arno Rogalla
Rogalla Consulting
Dr.-Ing. Oliver Schnerr
Kistler Instrumente AG
has the task of advising and supporting the Supervisory Board and the Executive Board in important decisions. It is intended to strengthen relations between the public and various sectors of SKZ society and to promote public interest in SKZ's research and educational topics. The Board of Trustees is formed - on an honorary basis - by well-known personalities from business, science, politics and the public sector.
Dr. Guiscard Glück (Chairman)
BASF SE
Dr. Pia Beckmann
Beckmann Consulting
Dr. Christine Bötsch
Stadträtin Stadt Würzburg
Dr.-Ing. Holger Findeisen
ZF Friedrichshafen AG
Andreas Hertsch
Kunststoff Information Verlagsgesellschaft mbH
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Christian Hopmann
Institut für Kunststoffverarbeitung IKV - RWTH Aachen
Albrecht Huber
Leistritz Extrusionstechnik GmbH
Prof. Dr. Ralf Jahn
Hauptgeschäftsführer der
IHK Würzburg-Schweinfurt
Klaus Jasper
Thorsten Kühmann
Fachverband Kunststoff- und Gummimaschinen im VDMA
Paul Lehrieder
Mitglied des Deutschen Bundestages
Joachim Oberrauch
Finstral AG
Claus Reder
VR Bank Würzburg eG-Bank
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Volker Schöppner
Universität Paderborn Institut für Kunststofftechnik Fakultät für Maschinenbau
Oberbürgermeister Christian Schuchardt
Stadt Würzburg
Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Gerhard Sextl
Institutsleiter Fraunhofer-Institut für Silicatforschung ISC
Christoph Stamm
BÄNNINGER Kunststoff-Produkte GmbH
Dr.-Ing. Michael Stöger
REHAU AG + Co.
Dr. Otto Wiesheu
ehemaliger Bayerischer Staatsminister für Wirtschaft, Infrastruktur, Verkehr und Technologie
Peter Wolf
Beck Elektrotechnik GmbH
Its honorary members advise the management on technical and scientific issues relating to the individual business units. The members of the advisory board are to inform the SKZ about technical trends and give suggestions as to the direction in which the scientific work should develop. In order to ensure the high quality and productivity in the long term, the work of the institute is accompanied scientifically and technically by the advisory board. The Advisory Board has the right and the duty to make suggestions to the Supervisory Board in order to maintain and improve the SKZ's service portfolio in line with market requirements.
Representatives of the SKZ:
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Martin Bastian
Dr. rer. nat. Thomas Hochrein
Dr. rer. nat. Johann Erath
Martin Würtele (Chair of the Advisory Board)
KraussMaffei Technologies GmbH
Dr. Tobias Pfefferkorn (Vice-Chairman)
BASF SE
Dr. Peter Attenberger
Vinnolit Kunststoff GmbH
Thomas Frank
FRANK GmbH
Dr. Wolfgang Frings
Simona AG
Hartmut Henneken
Jowat SE
Prof. Ansgar Jaeger
Hochschule für angewandte Wissenschaften
Würzburg-Schweinfurt
Dr. Karl Kuhmann
Evonik Resource Efficiency GmbH
Dr. Edgar Quandt
REHAU AG + Co
Dr. Otto Skrabala
Georg Fischer Piping Systems
Dr. Joachim Starke
BMW Group
Dr.-Ing. Michael Szerman
VEKA AG
Dr. Thomas Walther
ARBURG GmbH + Co KG
SKZ – Technology Center
Friedrich-Bergius-Ring 22
97076 Würzburg
Tel. +49 931 4104-0