Living in Sundern, Germany
Retired, after 32 years working as TS&D engineer
Function in the European PLACE Committee | Committee Member
Contact | Otto@Plassmann.ws
I attended all European Tappi events from 1991 in Duesseldorf until 2022 in Bratislava and supported the organisation of the finally called PLACE conferences, by working and partially leading in the European Tappi PLACE Committee.
In addition, I attended some PLACE conferences in USA and established my network in the extrusion coating based and related packaging industry, also by supporting the Tappi IFPED division. Based on the Tappi decision to focus on activities and events in North America, I supported the founding of the European PLACE Committee where the bdvi took over the role of Tappi with the goal to continue the organization of the well-established biennial PLACE conferences as meeting-PLACE of the converting & packaging industry, the sometimes called “coating family”.
Based on 31 years in the Tappi family and the amount of learning, sharing and enjoying together with colleagues in the industry, I would like to support the European PLACE Committee under the umbrella of bdvi with my skills and experience in organizing such conferences as platform of and for communication.
- After retirement end 2020, I joined the bdvi organization, not to lose the contact to the converting industry and meet other people from and in the packaging industry.
- Technical Service and Development for extrusion coating at INEOS O&P Europe with focus on extrusion coating in the liquid packaging application.
- Supporting the polymer production and development in Cologne, Germany and Bamble, Norway.
- Managing the start-up and operation of the 4-extruder coextrusion pilot line, based in Cologne, Germany.
- Studied Paper & Polymer Converting at the Fachhochschule, Munich (1979 – 1983) now University of Applied Sciences.