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FPC at SGL site in Meitingen officially opened

SGL Carbon and Fraunhofer IGCV founded the joint Fiber Placement Center at the beginning of this year.

18th September 2018

Innovation in Textiles
 |  Meitingen

Transport/​Aerospace

From left to right: Johann Häusler, Prof Dr Klaus Drechsler, Franz Josef Pschierer, (hidden: Dr Michael Higl, Eva Weber, Hannah Paulus, Andreas Wüllner, Dr Jürgen Köhler). © SGL Carbon SGL Carbon, a technology-based leader in the development and production of carbon-based solutions, has announced the official opening of the new Fiber Placement Center (FPC) at the company’s site in Meitingen.

Guests at the FPC inaugural celebration were greeted by Dr Jürgen Köhler, CEO of SGL Carbon, Andreas Wüllner, Head of the Composites – Fibers & Materials business unit at SGL Carbon, and Dr Klaus Drechsler, Director of Fraunhofer IGCV and Head of the Carbon Composites chair at the TU Munich.

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