#145 The Länd Interview during JEC World 2024
21.10.2024 11 min Staffel 5 Episode 102
Zusammenfassung & Show Notes
The Composites Industry in THE LÄND has gone through some restructuring.
Join our discussion with Markus Milwich of Deutsche Institute für Textil- und Faserforschung Denkendorf (DITF) ahead of the JEC Forum DACH in Stuttgart in only about two weeks time.
Markus explains the new structure of Allianz Faserbasierte Werkstoffe Baden-Württemberg (AFBW) e.V. with their founding partners Composites United and LBZ.
He also underlines the importance of governmental support, which regrettably ceased for lightweight construction earlier this year.
As to JEC Forum DACH 2024 Markus says, quote many innovative SMEs and large companies conduct research and production in Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg and the neighboring DACH region.
The JEC Forum, organized by JEC Group and AVK, connects the strong composite community of the DACH region in an effective discussion format. The JEC Forum DACH is an important event of the events and activities in the field of lightweight construction, bioeconomy and circular economy in Baden-Württemberg, including the Lightweight Construction Congress on November 6th, the Natural Fiber Congress on October 9th and the Carbon Recycling Congress on February 19th, 2025.
Register on this AFBW event here: https://leichtbau-bw.eu/
JEC Group posted about its JEC Forum DACH today:
"Only 2 weeks left before JEC Forum DACH 2024, which will take place on October 22nd and 23rd 2024 in Stuttgart, Germany!
Don’t miss the opportunity to:
- Maximise business opportunities by meeting industry experts, innovators and decision-makers
- Attend conferences to stay up to date on the latest trends and innovations in the composites market
- Take part in a Special Composites Tour!
Register now! https://lnkd.in/eRhXNmxg
See you in Stuttgart soon!
Join our discussion with Markus Milwich of Deutsche Institute für Textil- und Faserforschung Denkendorf (DITF) ahead of the JEC Forum DACH in Stuttgart in only about two weeks time.
Markus explains the new structure of Allianz Faserbasierte Werkstoffe Baden-Württemberg (AFBW) e.V. with their founding partners Composites United and LBZ.
He also underlines the importance of governmental support, which regrettably ceased for lightweight construction earlier this year.
As to JEC Forum DACH 2024 Markus says, quote many innovative SMEs and large companies conduct research and production in Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg and the neighboring DACH region.
The JEC Forum, organized by JEC Group and AVK, connects the strong composite community of the DACH region in an effective discussion format. The JEC Forum DACH is an important event of the events and activities in the field of lightweight construction, bioeconomy and circular economy in Baden-Württemberg, including the Lightweight Construction Congress on November 6th, the Natural Fiber Congress on October 9th and the Carbon Recycling Congress on February 19th, 2025.
Register on this AFBW event here: https://leichtbau-bw.eu/
JEC Group posted about its JEC Forum DACH today:
"Only 2 weeks left before JEC Forum DACH 2024, which will take place on October 22nd and 23rd 2024 in Stuttgart, Germany!
Don’t miss the opportunity to:
- Maximise business opportunities by meeting industry experts, innovators and decision-makers
- Attend conferences to stay up to date on the latest trends and innovations in the composites market
- Take part in a Special Composites Tour!
Register now! https://lnkd.in/eRhXNmxg
See you in Stuttgart soon!
Transkript
Dear LinkedIn community and composites
lounge experts out there.
We are coming slowly to the end of day one
(JEC World 2024).
And today I promised you I will show you
some of the pavilions,
the German federal pavilions,
and I'm here at The Länd.
The Länd in German is Baden-Württemberg.
Markus, do you know what's in English?
Baden-Württemberg?
-it's Baden-Württemberg.
Also Baden-Württemberg.
Very easy, because Bayern is Bavaria.
In this case we are in Baden-Württemberg.
And Markus Milwich
he is now here at The Länd.
May I ask you to introduce yourself.
What is your role
here at The Länd?
-I have several roles.
Firstly, I am doing composites research
in the DITF
(Centre for Polymers
and Composites, Deutsche Institute
für Textil- und Faserforschung)
in Denkendorf.
But I'm also now since three months
representative of Baden-Württemberg
in the field of composites.
-So the DITF in pronunciation
is Deutsche Institute
für Textil- und Faserforschung,
which is one of my domains,
because I'm a textile guy.
Textile reinforcement is very important.
What do you think about textiles?
What kind of textiles?
-Well, textiles is the beginning.
Textiles are very important for sure,
as you see all around us here.
And I'm also a textile man.
So I studied textile in Stuttgart.
It's everyday a new thing,
everyday a new thing to
to see here on the fair.
Well, fibers and textiles are the future.
Markus, if you have one tip
for all the textile processors
out there concerning composite production,
what would be the number one thing
that they are always overlooking?
-Money.
Money? The cost side?
Yes. Because the textile people
they love "Veredlung".
They love the sizing
and play around
with the features of the textiles.
Yes, for sure.
So we are since many, many years,
many years cost sure.
And many processes went abroad.
And so we the cost is really always
for the textiles a big thing.
But I think we're doing good in Germany
and for the technical textiles
there's always a big future
here in Germany,
and technical textiles
and fiber reinforced textiles.
On our right hand side.
I'm seeing the JEC innovation award.
A colleague of mine, Hermann Fink
and his crew,
is a simulation group,
but they did a thing for wood cutting tool
and it is made
for fiber reinforced composites.
This tool can work double as fast
as a metallic tool.
And so they got the price.
-So we are back at cost reduction, right?
At cost reduction,
because a useful metal tool
would do 10,000 turns per minute.
And this is 20,000.
So Markus, now we are here
at the JEC World
on your pavilion, The Länd. And of course
I would like to give a glimpse
of the ecosystem
of Baden-Wuerttemberg to the world.
Can you describe us
how is the ecosystem in Baden-Württemberg?
How are you organized here?
And I understand
there is some reorganization being done.
You have focused your power.
Since January 2024,
we newly founded the Alliance
on Fiber Reinforced Composites
in Baden-Württemberg,
and we done our best to get the companies
and the research together.
And there are three partners
AFBW, Composites United and LBZ e.V.
are three partners.
They work together and funded the Alliance
of Fiber Reinforced
Composites Leichtbau BW.
And so we organize again the stuff
we did before
and hope we bring together the companies,
the research people
and also the community.
It's necessary to say that it's very,
very important to do this
because the TTP LB
(Technologie Transfer Programm Leichtbau)
lightweight thing
of the German government is canceled.
That's a big, big sorry to do that.
And we have to fight together
to bring the composites forward
and to tell the people and the politicians
how important
the lightweight is in saving money,
in saving energy
and saving the environment.
-We have this technology transfer
Leichtbau programme of the Ministry
of Economy and Climate Action
(Bundesministerium
für Wirtschaft und Klimaschutz, Germany)
that you are referring to,
and it's really sorry to hear
that they have canceled
this 140 million Euro fund.
And unfortunately,
this has not gotten too much of
an public attention so far.
But we would like to talk to Berlin
and get the awareness
raised as a community,
because 140 million is quite a number.
-We have to tell the politicians
they should be sure
that lightweight construction
is sustainability in saving material
and saving energy
in saving energy consumption.
-Absolutely.
This is a big talk we have to do.
And I want to mention
that we have the Leichtbautag
in Baden-Wuerttemberg in November 2024.
When is it?
-6th of November 2024
at Fraunhofer IPA in Stuttgart.
So we progress, we going on
and always looking
for inviting the politicians
that I do know what we talk about
when we talk about composites
and the community.
-Markus, you are an expert
in lightweight technologies
and composites.
Tell me, what happens
if composites wouldn't be there,
if the fundings are going down,
investments are going down.
Would this have negative repercussions
on innovation, for example.
Yeah. For sure.
I mean, the lightweight construction
is a topology optimization,
and we can do that also
in lightweight construction.
It's more important to do that
in lightweight construction,
because topology optimization
is lightweight saving
is light construction.
And we can do that in composites
better than in metal.
Markus, you have some stuff
to show around.
Shall we move to the other place?
And you show me some parts?
Yes.
-Markus, we are now at The Länd booth,
and now we are here on a glass vitrine
with
a lot of
samples. And you brought
some samples with us.
So just run us through these samples here.
-We have some nice samples
from the companies,
which are around us in The Länd
in The Länd of Baden-Württemberg.
And we are proud
that we have a really nice exponent
here to show around.
And I want to emphasise
that we have super companies
here doing lightweight construction
and they are here in this vitrine.
You see around us
many companies around us.
And this is just an excerpt.
I want to show you then some exponents.
Those 3D printing with endless carbon
reinforced polyamide.
So this is the next step
of 3D printing with endless carbon fibers.
The next is the demonstrator
of our automotive part
with recycled carbon.
So we have to think about how we process
the recycled carbon fibers
into new demonstrators and the new parts.
So this is a demonstrator of a building
with natural fiber composites.
And I think the next steps
in the carbon
in the fiber reinforced composites
is also a part of natural fibers.
And this is a building,
a temporary building,
we do with endless fiber
or stable fibers, natural fibers.
So and here's also
a part in pultrusion.
It is a part not with heat curing
but with UV curing.
And so the dye won't get heated up.
It's just curing with UV light.