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Engineering services

I have been working as an employee in the German plastics industry since 1996.
Since 1 July 2022, I have been self-employed as a mechanical/plastics engineer.
As an independent specialist, I support my customers with systematic, effective and efficient processes for and with plastics, my SEEPP...
From the idea to production and beyond.
And because plastics are processed globally, I also work worldwide in a wide variety of plastics industries: in Europe, Asia and Africa.

The portfolio of my engineering services include:

The creation of specifications
product, plastic, tool, process, machine, peripherals, quality assurance, etc.
Product design and construction: application- and plastic-specific
Simulations (rheological, thermal, mechanical)
Tool design and construction,
Sampling
Commissioning
On-site process engineering support
Technical process audits
Project management
Company-specific and process-related training

The types of plastics comprise i.e.:

Thermoplastics,
Thermoplastic elastomers,
Silicones,
Rubbers
Biomaterials
Recyclates
Thermosets
Material combinations.

The plastic processing methods include, among others:

1. Injection moulding

Compact injection moulding
Special injection moulding processes:
Gas and water injection,
Foaming (chemical/physical),
multi-component/multi-colour injection moulding,
in-mould decoration (IMD),
in-mould labelling (IML),
film insert moulding (FIM),
hybrid injection moulding, insert and outsert moulding.

2. Extrusion

film blow moulding,
flat film extrusion,
sheet extrusion
hollow blow moulding,
profile extrusion,
coating extrusion
mono and multi-layers
compounding (water bath / underwatergranulator)

3. Thermoforming

Vacuum forming

Company- and process-specific training courses

Through the targeted transfer of specialist knowledge and skills, complex processes can be systematically simplified, explained and understood.

Processes can often be different and simpler. And above all: better for your product, for your company, for your customers and for our environment.

REFERENCES

My clients expect a confident trusting working relationship in which the currency of internal company processes, data and information comes first.

Nevertheless, I would like to give you a few references – all anonymised:

Chemical engineer – Nederland:
“Stephan is a delight to work with. He made a heavy long course fun to go through.”

Injection moulding machine operators – Nederland:
“Stephan has a deep understanding of the subject and makes even the most complex topics clear and interesting”

“Stephan was very responsive to any questions asked and explained everything in detail in a way you could understand everything, along with keeping a friendly environment for the group.”

“Stephan is good with good experience and good communication to every detail needed”.

“ Stephan is very well informed. Always helpful with general questions about injection moulding.”

Plant manager automotive, Injection moulding - Europe
“Stephan, thank you very much for your process engineering support and process audit. We always focussed on the injection moulding machine.

You also highlighted the importance of the auxiliary equipment for a stabile injection moulding process.

Based on your analysis and recommendations we have improved our check lists, modified the parameter setup and documentation incl. measurements, reworked our maintenance schedule of machines and equipment.

These actions proved immediate success: controlled start up, more stable productions and higher product qualities."