Klaus Gargitter

Materials Engineer, graduated at Universidade Federal de São Carlos, with emphasis on polymeric materials, which allows the performance in various segments of the supply chain of materials, including knowledge of machinery and equipment used in polymers processing. Due to basic training in the other two major groups of materials, metals and ceramics, has a broad vision of the possibilities of interaction and use of all types of materials, from its isolated to the formulation of composite materials. Expert in application and product development for HDPE pipes, HDPE and PP pipe coating, PE and XLPE wire and cables applications (telecon and energy), umbilacals materials for deep water oil platform. Expert in application and product devellopment for HDPE and LLDPE film applications, HDPE blow molding and injection molding, MDPE for rotational molding (rotomolding) and UHMWPE. 18 years of professional experience at petrochemical companies in product development, application engineering and market development: three years experience in new product development (HDPE) and laboratory tests applied to polymers. Nine years of experience in Technical Service and Market Development in films, blow molding, rotational molding and injection molding (HDPE, LLDPE and PP). Five years of experience in new product development, Technical Service and Market Development in the specialty of PE and PP. -Training in Spherilene and Spheripol technologies (production and application of LLDPE, HDPE and PP), at the Technology Center Montell Ferrara - Italy (1999). -Training in the Unipol technology for the production and application of LLDPE, mLLDPE, MDPE and HDPE in the center of technology Univation - Baytown / Texas – USA(2004).