Univ. Prof. Dr.-Ing. Johannes Wortberg

Konstruktion und Kunststoffmaschinen, Universität Duisburg-Essen
Germany

Short biography

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Johannes Wortberg, born in 1951, studied mechanical engineering at the University of Technology in Aachen. After several years as a member of the scientific staff and head of department at the Institut fuer Kunststoffverarbeitung (IKV) in Aachen, he became head of research and development at Battenfeld-Extrusionstechnik in Bad Oeynhausen and Bochum in 1983. From 1987 to 1992 he occupied a chair in plastics engineering at the University of Paderborn. From 1993 to 1999 he had been the head of the Institute of Design Theory and Plastics Machinery (KKM) at the University of Essen. Since 2000 he has been the head of the Institute of Engineering Design and Plastics Machinery at the University of Duisburg- Essen. In addition, he is managing director of ETA Kunststofftechnologie GmbH in Troisdorf.

Plenum

23/09/2008, 10:00 - 12:30

Opening

• Sustainability in plastics engineering - a German-Polish research project