#146 Saxony Interview during JEC World 2024 with STFI

Ever wondered how you can get the JEC Group innovation award as a
sporting goods manufacturer?

This is exactly what I spoke about with Jörg Kaufmann during JEC
World 2024.

His statement about his Silbaerg GmbH snowboard "it is the first
serial product using the anisotropic coupling effects in a serial
product. We started in 2011, one that is pure brand new award
with this technology. And since then we are in the premium market
with a very special product and a little bit more than the
average price for these products and for being available also for
other customers. We started to bring glass fibers also into the
market.

And nowadays natural fibers are very interesting. We also want to
reduce the CO2 footprint of our carbon snowboards and therefore
we make a non-woven out of the cutting waste of our carbon
snowboards together with the Sächsisches Textilforschungsinstitut
e.V. (STFI). And this carbon non-woven is used in the snowboards
compared with hemp fibers...: I think we have a the very
important and innovative things that nowadays are important to
composite technology.FF

First of all, our anisotropic based technology, this is something
not a lot other companies have in a serial product. Then we use
the dry fiber placement for placing the hemp fibers and these
hemp fibers grew up in Saxony, 50 km away from Chemnitz. So I was
there at the harvesting of the hemp... And then we have the
recycled carbon fibers. So we are circular economy because we use
the waste of our dry fiber placement, carbon fiber production for
this non-woven. And we have also a bio based resin.

So I think it is a lot of things that are nowadays very
important. And I think the combination was the thing why we won
the award."

If you have a prototype that you believe deserves to be awarded
by the jury hurry up and send your application to JEC for its
2025 round of awards.

Join also our discussions with Christopher Albe and Johannes
Leis, both from the STFI about the composites ecosystem and
circular Saxony with it's locations in Chemnitz, Dresden and
Freiberg.

With this podcast episode we have covered over a dozen interviews
from JEC World 2024 and are heading right after KOMPOZYT-EXPO to
JEC Forum DACH in Stuttgart on 22/23 Oct 2024.

Remember also that the next stop of JEC FORUM DACH will be Saxony
in 2025. Dresden to be precise.

But before we gather in Dresden, let's meet in Paris at JEC World
in March 2025, JEC Forum Italy in June 2025 and JEC Forum Central
Europe in September 2025.

For now we are looking forward to interview in Stuttgart

Kerry Lyons of Base Materials
Dominik Riescher of sensXPERT - Optimizing Plastics
Manufacturing
Eric Pierrejean of JEC Group 

and more. 

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